ABSTRACT
Without passion, a successful career in surgical research is almost unimaginable.As a good dictionary would indicate, passion is intense desire, dedicated fervor, and powerful ardor to conquer a particular activity in life. Passion is also great enthusi asm and uncontrollable zeal to excel. Passion suffuses accomplishment, success, im provement, advancement, and all the other attributes of progress. Passion demands our full giving but returns fruits in plenty. In many ways, the discipline of surgical research is not different from regular life. The surgical investigator needs to build up, encourage, and maintain all the important characteristics of passion. Without passion, surgical research loses its focus on the highest standards of academics and scholarship.
