Newsweek June 12, 2024
When Dr. Amandeep Bhalla enters the operating room, the outside world melts away. There are no phone calls to take, no MyChart messages to return, no strict timetables to adhere to. The priority is clear: the person on the table. A beating heart and breathing lungs. Hands that someone in the waiting room is eager to hold again.
Bhalla thinks of his newborn daughter and his aging parents, of every life that intertwines with the one lying, unconscious, on his operating table. It’s a “tremendous honor,” a “fantastic gift” to be trusted like this, the spine surgeon told Newsweek from his Long Beach, California, office—and there is nothing more important than being worthy of that trust.
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