This combination of clockwise and counterclockwise vortexes is common — Gerald Buckberg

"We all have to be students, who are often wrong and always in doubt, while a professor is sometimes wrong and never in doubt. Please join me on my student pathway..."

"[T]he heart... is, in reality, a that contains an apex. The cardiac helix form... was described in the 1660s by Lower as having an apical , in which the muscle fibers go from outside in, in a clockwise way, and from inside out, in a counterclockwise direction."

"These helical patterns are common in many animals with horns, such as the ram or eland... [I]n combat... they do not break, because nature introduces... the formation of spirals within spirals... nature’s way of supporting one structure within itself. In a larger sense, nature introduces a harmony of structures from both outside and inside the visible shape."

"The zebrafish is... interesting... Its aorta is 1/3 the size of a human hair. But yet.. it works exactly like yours and mine do. ...So were not unique. Were just a part of a wonderful scheme of nature. ...[W]ere such a part of a scheme that we look at reciprocal spirals in heaven..."

"[A]s you look at this scheme of how we learn and grow... we go up and down this pipe. ...[G]rowth is knowledge to analyze, to differentiate, to take things apart. Wisdom is to synthesize, integrate, to bring them together. Wholeness means you have complimentary activity to use them both. You have to do something. Something has to happen, and as a surgeon we are lucky. We have the ability to combine wisdom and knowledge into action."

"I picked up a book [The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels ed., Saunders & OMalley] on Vesalius... [H]e cut the heart... to see the different cavities... in the 1500s. ...[T]he cardiac structure is the first example since Leonardo da Vinci showing the thickness of the walls and the shape of the cavities."