Do No Harm Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
- Rinimembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
‘The best is the enemy of the good,’ - Rinimembuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluThere was no reason for this next operation on the pineal tumour to go well just because I hoped so desperately that it would, or because the previous operation had gone so badly.
- Rinimembuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluThe reality, of course, is entirely different. Doctors are human, just like the rest of us. Much of what happens in hospitals is a matter of luck, both good and bad; success and failure are often out of the doctor’s control.
- Rinimembuat kutipan3 tahun yang laluIf we are ill and in hospital, fearing for our life, awaiting terrifying surgery, we have to trust the doctors treating us – at least, life is very difficult if we don’t.
- Rinimembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluwe are ill and in hospital, fearing for our life, awaiting terrifying surgery, we have to trust the doctors treating us – at least, life is very difficult if we don’t.
- Rinimembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluIf the operation succeeds the surgeon is a hero, but if it fails he is a villain.
- Rinimembuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu‘Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’
- abhari yousefmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalu
been insufficiently fearful - abhari yousefmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalupineal tumour and acute hydrocephalus
- abhari yousefmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalulonger the case.
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