SAN FRANCISCO -- Discipline, creativity and a steady hand -- all traits that an artist must possess.

According to Dr. Don Hershman, they are qualities that a surgeon must possess. He would seemingly know, because he is both of those things.

"I always said there is a part of my brain that turns on at a certain point in the painting and in the surgery. I mean the blank canvass is daunting. When you are beginning a surgery, it's the beginning of an adventure. It's a creative energy that not many people have the experience of talking about, because surgeons are surgeons and artists are artists. Not many people do both," Hershman said.

As a board-certified surgeon and a celebrated San Francisco-based artist, his artwork and paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across t

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