Dear Colleagues, I had the pleasure of visiting the Yale Surgery team at Shoreline last month — a walkaround exercise I hope to make a habit this coming year. Meeting with the team there – each person, almost bursting with enthusiasm to show me their work — I was reminded of the bricklayers’ parable. The story, based on historic accounts of the rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral following the Great Fire of London, tells the tale of three workers. “What are you doing?” they are asked.
