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Dealing with and learning from surgical complications
There are two types of doctors who never have surgical complications: those who do not operate and those who are not quite fully truthful. This humorous adage emphasizes that no matter how rare, all surgeons have complications. Even master surgeons, with decades of experience over tens of thousands of surgeries, will occasionally encounter an intraoperative or postoperative complication. When a surgical complication happens, we need to appropriately deal with it to restore a good visual outcome to our patient and we need to learn from it so that we can (Read more...)