Ok, I admit it. I have a surgical personality and mid-set. It's what I enjoy most in my practice of medicine. I like the doing and the immediate gratification. I like the personalities better. So I have a bias. But I think I've figured out the difference between Surgery and Medicine in academia.
Surgeons do it.
Medicine thinks about it, pre-rounds on it, rounds long hours about it, provides a conference about it, makes a medical student research it and present it on those long rounds or at morning conference, runs the list later and discusses it....then consults surgery to do it.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
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