Owen Tripp

I got an opinion from the house clinic, which is closer to you.

And in LA, this is really the place where they invented the surgical approach to treating these things.

I also got

And an approach shared with me from the Mayo Clinic and one from UCSF and one from Stanford.

And ultimately, I picked the Stanford team.

And these are fascinating and delicate structures, as you know, that you're dealing with in the brain.

But the surgery is a long surgery performed by multiple surgeons.

It's such an exhausting surgery that as you're sort of peeling away that tumor, that you need relief.

And so after a 13 hour surgery, multiple nights in the hospital and some significant training to learn how to walk and move and sort of not lose my balance,

You know, I am as you see me today, but it was possible under one of the surgical approaches that I would have lost, you know, the use of the right side of my face, which obviously was not an option given what I do.

You've got a whole team in there.

You've got people testing nerve function.

You've got people obviously managing the anesthesiology, which is sufficiently complex given what's involved.

You've got a specialized ENT called a neurotologist.

You've got the neurosurgeon who creates access.

So it's quite a team that does these things.

Well, I started the company that was known as Grand Rounds in 2011.

And Grand Rounds still, to this day, we've rebranded as Included Health, had a very simple but powerful idea, one you just obliquely referred to, which is if we get people to higher quality medicine by helping them find the right level and quality of care,

that two good things would happen.

One, the sort of obvious one, patients would get better, they'd move on with their lives, they'd return to health.