The Surgeon Who Handed Over the Scalpel

In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured tumor sent her into hemorrhagic shock, and suddenly the doctor who had spent fifteen years mastering medicine found herself on the wrong side of the gurney. She later wrote that the hardest moment wasn't the pain — it was surrendering control to her colleagues.…