Got a letter from one of the best neurosurgeons in one of the big Seattle hospitals.

He is retiring from neurosurgery and will be taking a job as an administrator in medicine in another country.

Flight of the doctors.

It's really depressing. I am thinking of getting prayer flags and writing the names of the doctors I know who have left and retired. Or died. Or quit medicine. I get a flier for an entire conference on how to change careers out of medicine.

Or maybe I should make a diorama with names on little cardboard headstones. There would be a lot of them.

...gloom...