That Little Extra Is Everything (ft. Luis Garcia)
5/14/202631 min
Dr. Luis Garcia is the President of Rush Medical Group in Chicago, leading 1,000 physicians and 500 APPs across the Rush footprint. He grew up in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City where his father started a medical practice in his grandmother's kitchen that eventually became a hospital. He applied to all 220 surgery residency programs in the US as a foreign medical graduate, got two interviews, and flew to Fargo, North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard because he refused to do a phone interview.
In this episode, Luis talks about why he had to leave Mexico to stop being his father's son, why identifying your weaknesses matters more than knowing your strengths, and why the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is always that little 'extra.'
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First 90 secondsLuis Garcia· Guest0:00
Everything that is worth in life is gonna take that little extra. Every problem has a solution. Every person has a good side. Every issue has a commonality. The ability to identify what are my weaknesses, recognize that they are weaknesses, and work around them, to me, has given me more than understanding what my strengths are.
Speaker 10:24
[upbeat music] Welcome to Digital Voices, where healthcare and life science leaders explore the real work behind transformation. This podcast is about people, leadership, and the conversations that move healthcare forward. Now your host, Ed Marx.
Ed Marx· Host0:41
Welcome to another edition of Digital Voices. Thanks for listening. I know you have a lot of choices, lots of great content out there, and you've chosen to spend time with us, and it's gonna be amazing 'cause I have Dr. Luis Garcia with us. Uh, Luis, welcome to Digital Voices.
Luis Garcia· Guest0:57
Uh, thank you for the invitation, and hi to everybody. Everybody is taking the time to, uh, listen to us. A great day here in Chicago. And Ed, uh, let's go.
Ed Marx· Host1:07
I love it. Uh, we met only recently, so we were together, and I was like, "Wow, this is a super interesting, uh, leader and physician," and I was like, "You have to be on my Digital Voices program," and you were so gracious to accept my invitation. And so, as you said, here we are and here we go. So the most important question, Luis, that we ask all