Having completed her residency in 1999 at The University of Texas Medical School, in Houston, Alicia Kowalski, MD, was soon hired as an instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston. From there, her career advanced remarkably quickly, just as planned.
But it didn’t take long for her to realize something was wrong: She had never been taught how to take care of anything other than her