Author of quotes: Do no harm. Page 2

The absence of hair depersonalizes the patient and, thus, it is much easier for the surgeon to perform brain surgery.

Anxiety is contagious, of course, but so is confidence. The faith of patients gives me extra strength.

The brain is a mystery of nature, which seems to me no less great than the stars in the night sky and the entire universe around us.

Approaching a patient whom you have done irreparable damage, you feel as if an invisible force field is pushing you away from him, hindering your attempts to open the door of his room (the door handle feels so heavy, as if filled with lead), does not allow you to approach the bed, interferes any attempt to put on an uncertain smile on his face.

As a rule, soon after the beginning of any operation, I find that there is no trace of obsessive fear left.

He diligently wrote down everything I said on his smartphone, as if he had all these long terms at hand: occlusal

The more experience I gain, the more I realize how the success of the operation depends on banal luck.

All surgeons worry when the patient is someone from colleagues. This feeling is irrational, because compared to the other patients colleagues are far less likely to claim if something goes wrong, as surgeons know all too well that physicians are ordinary people who make mistakes, and that the outcome of the operation is not only dependent on them. The surgeons, his colleague, is experiencing this irrational fear for the reason that of the usual detachment cannot be and speeches, - he feels completely defenseless. He knows that the patient does not consider him omnipotent.

One would assume that when you see so much suffering and pain, begin to relate easier to their own challenges. But this, alas, is not happening.