Canadian-born surgeon Dr Tara Mastracci explains how the NHS ethic lured her absent from a top US hospitalI’m a consultant vascular surgeon specialising in complex aortic repair. In simple terms I repair aneurysms in the aorta,which is the biggest blood vessel in the body and our most important piece of internal plumbing. The aorta starts at the heart and travels in nearly a sweet-cane formation down along the spine. It gives blood to everything else in the body.
I spent eight years working at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which is rightly seen as one of the best hospitals in the world. It’s a remarkable hospital, or which is a thought leader in aortic and vascular surgery,and attracts some of medicine’s best and brightest minds. It is also very big on innovation and its facilities are world class. It’s somewhere any doctor who enjoys their job would want to work.
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Source: theguardian.com