It documents messy tracheotomies, a stomach-stapling operation on an obese man and a surgical procedure to help a woman who cannot stop blushing. It begins with a bullet wound in a young man’s buttock and ends with a woman whose leg is almost destroyed by Necrotizing fascitis. He also throws light on patients expectations and behavioural aspects in case of surgical complications. It is also equally valuable to qualified practitioners and medical professionals.Īlso laid out clearly and concisely, are well-established potholes and pitfalls in current medical and thinking and practice.
Skill, surgeons believe, can be taught tenacity cannot.This book forms an important and formative reading a medical student must do outside the prescribed requirements for a degree. being less “flaky.” And in the end that matters more.
Sure, he said, he’d bet on the sculptor being more physically talented but he’d bet on the Ph.D. who had painstakingly cloned a gene and a talented sculptor, he’d pick the Ph.D.
As one professor of surgery put it to me, given a choice between a Ph.D. Nonetheless, attending surgeons say that what’s most important to them is finding people who are conscientious, industrious, and boneheaded enough to stick at practicing this one difficult thing day and night for years on end. Professors say every two or three years they’ll see someone truly gifted come through a program-someone who picks up complex manual skills unusually quickly, sees the operative field as a whole, notices trouble before it happens. You do not even need all ten fingers to be accepted. When I interviewed to get into surgery programs, no one made me sew or take a dexterity test or checked if my hands were steady. People often assume that you have to have great hands to become a surgeon, but it’s not true. “Surgeons, as a group, adhere to a curious egalitarianism.
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