Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20140926014839/@comment-4287993-20140930170653

Richard did add to the recommending thing that the rest of the board would agree it's a no-brainer, so she may have gotten her attitude from that particular line.

As for the whole experience thing, just because the board is made up out of surgeons, doesn't mean that an empty seat has to be filled with the candidate with most surgical experience. As seen by the previous boards, hospitals can also be run without any surgical experience in the board (though it certainly makes life better for the doctors when there is).