and he's was empthetic at a time period where there was an emotional detach from doctors and patients. and we still struggle with that today. but back then, when we think about someone sawing off a leg while you are still awake the instinct would be the person getting the leg sawed off. but imagine studying for years and knowing you would have to carve this pain and you would have to have emotional detachment. but he didn't have that quality. he trusted people and made people join him on the surgeries and that is why he was so poplar. he came back to philadelphia and clashed a lot with another doctor while trying to be a professor. this is jefferson medical college and this is charles meggs. jeff jefferson medical colleges was bringing new things to the forefront like surgical and patient clinics. they brought the most brilliant minds in surgery and medicine to one faculty but they were all crazy genius and didn't want to work together. there were fist fights and they would hackle each other during surgeries. and jefferson had enough ration fired the faculty and brought back ones that