This column is the latest article in the ongoing series “I wish I hadn’t done that.” Past submissions can be read here.
Bruce Lee, arguably the greatest martial artist of all time, once famously said, “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
While my own operations are only occasionally as bloody as a fistfight in the streets, I have found Lee’s sage wisdom to be nevertheless applicable. Variety is not itself a virtue.
The major source of variety in my surgeries lately owes to the