The Surgeon Who Could Not Stop Trembling

Dr. Elena Vasquez had performed over three thousand surgeries at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Her hands were legendary — steady as marble, precise as a watchmaker's. But in October 2019, she was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's. The first tremor appeared during a routine appendectomy. She set down her scalpel, stepped back from the table, and whispered to her resident, "I can't.…