Medical Murmurs Podcast

Jack Jallo is a neurosurgeon and spine surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia. 

"The sacrifices that you were expected to make in terms of your personal life were fairly significant. I think that's still the case. I think neurosurgery residents are still some of the hardest working residents in the hospital."

"I think we've come a long way in the field and most people do well now, but not everyone does well . . . the illnesses that you're taking care of are very significant or life changing for the patients that you're treating, and you have to be willing to take care of patients that may be on the path of actively dying. And your intervention is to try to prevent them often just from dying and you're not always successful. You have to be resilient enough to accept outcomes that are certainly beyond your control."