After a busy day of doing surgery, a friend asked me why I felt so drained.
After all, he surmised, each surgery is brief, and you are even sitting down while you operate. He did some quick math and said that even at 10 minutes a surgery, doing two dozen cases should amount to just about 4 hours of work. What he did not take into account was the intense concentration required to perform such delicate and unforgiving surgery. A slight mismove of just a millimeter is the difference between (Read more...)