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you know what they say about surgeons, right?” “Sometimes wrong, never unsure.”
Surgery has always been a male-dominated field; and its men’s locker-room sensibilities have proven remarkably resistant to twenty-first-century notions of gender equality.
Primum, non nocere. First, do no harm.
Surgery is a violent art. It’s the act of healing through deliberate injury to the human body.
That kind of behavior, routine back when surgeons ruled as god-kings over their ORs, feared by all and questioned by none, is no longer tolerated by medical schools and hospitals.
“I’m not afraid of death. I figure it’s like Socrates said: Death is a blessing no matter what happens after you die.”
Death is a win-win situation. Either it’s paradise or sleep. So there’s nothing to be afraid of.
The moment we’re born, we start dying. We spend our lives dying. Some of us just get there sooner.
‘Robert, good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.’”
Most psychopaths come from completely normal families and totally unremarkable upbringings.
My guilt is like a worm in an apple, twisting and feeding, burrowing into the soft substance of my conscience.
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
