
Dr. Sarah Waterman is a general surgeon at Copley Hospital in Vermont, where her practice spans breast cancer, trauma, and wound care for a community that often can’t travel for advanced treatment. Before medicine, she worked in emergency planning and disaster management — including a post-Katrina deployment in North Carolina — before training in a general surgery program at Mission Hospital in Asheville, where she helped run the first-in-human clinical trial of Microlyte® as a resident.
In small-town Vermont, the local hospital is the whole healthcare system for miles, and the doctor on call has to manage whatever walks through the door — teenagers mauled by family pets, farmers cut up by machinery, diabetic...