Physicians Practice December 19, 2023
A story about war can teach about making the right choices for your practice.
I read the Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell, which weaves a riveting tail of persistence, innovation, and costs of waging war. In this book he describes the World War II story of supplying fuel to B-29 bombers for the invasion of Japan in 1942. The Indian city closest to Japan was Kolkata (Calcutta) located in the eastern India. The planes with the fuel would fly to an airfield in Chengdu, China. The planes would refuel in Chengdu and fly to Japan to drop bombs on military and industrial sites that were supporting their war effort. After dropping their bombs, the planes would return to Chengdu pick...