“Once you have the tools, you can fix almost every pathology.” It’s a full awareness of being, where he is, whatever he is doing. Rather, the feats are so precise, they’re akin to his work as a physician: painstaking attention to every minute detail, a mountain of preparation before any procedure and a willingness to recognize the limitations imposed by the conditions he’s facing. He also has logged extreme endeavors that don’t even have a name: bungee jumping with a kayak, skydiving with a bike, parachuting into the back of a moving pickup truck.īeing a daredevil doctor does not make him a danger junkie, Mei-Dan says. Mei-Dan has tested himself in many outdoor adventures. He once jumped off the top of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, he repped for the energy drink that advertised it “gives you wings.” He once had a Red Bull sponsorship, as part of its Global BASE jumping team. I want to have mountains in my backyard.”įor 20 years, Mei-Dan was a freelance stuntman, appearing in commercials for the likes of Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. If I have an hour and a half, I can go for a run in the mountains. “I wanted high-level research with residents, students, fellows,” Mei-Dan says. When he bounded into Colorado a year ago as an assistant professor of orthopaedics at the School of Medicine, he found a home for his passion for extreme sports as well as his professional expertise in hip preservation and in treating extreme-sports injuries. Mei-Dan, MD, a 40-year-old globetrotting, adventure-seeking stuntman-turned-surgeon, operates in two modes: “alive” and “more alive.” He talks so fast that he has to repeat his name three times to the person on the phone. He’s fiddling with emails on his smartphone. Mei-Dan, buzzing at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, is taking a quick break from seeing patients.

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