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No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

— Atul Gawande

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

— Leonard Shlain

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

— Atul Gawande

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

— Harvey Cushing

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt

In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

— Sam Kean

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

— Chesley Sullenberger

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

— Dag Hammarskjold

✗Opposing Perspectives

A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

— Paul Kalanithi

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

— Jane Lynch

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

— Carrie-Anne Moss