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We have our faults and virtues; we meet with failures and achieve successes. Many of our faults are entirely unavoidable , and arise from the fact that medicaine is not an exact science … some things are quite impossible, and our work is carried out upon a living, breathing,complexity called a man, and not upon a jar, a chemical mixture in a retort, or a wooden Indian from the front of a cigar store. 我们禀赋善良却难免过失，我们遭遇失败也收获成功。过错难以完全避免，因为医学还不是一门精确的科学…有些事情完全不可能,因为我们面对的是一个个活生生的、有呼吸、颇具复杂性的人，而不是一只广口瓶---实验台上那种进行复杂化学实验的玻璃瓶---，也不是雪茄店门口摆设的那种印第安木偶。 ------J Chalmers Da Costa, 1863—1933 The one who does not operate does not have complications. 不做手术就不会有并发症。 ------佚名 No matter what you do, the number of complications will be double if a patient or his spouse is either a physician or a nurse. 无论你怎么做，如果病人或他的配偶是医生或护士，并发症的发生一定翻倍。 Operating on doctors` families: a big compliment with most complications.为医生的家属做手术: 是一种具有极大风险的褒奖。 ------佚名 Surgical complications are more likely on public holidays. 手术并发症更多发生在公众假期。 ------佚名 The rule of “2”: when you hear a surgeon telling hid number of performed cases , divide it by two. When he tells about his complication rate ,multiply it by two. “2”法则: 外科医生告诉你他手术的病例数时，除以2。而他讲他的并发症发生率时，乘以2。 ------Rick Paul Oh yeh, I forgot. None of us, of course, ever has any complication with whatever operation we perform. And if we do have complications they occur much less frequently anyway than those of others, and are never serious. And if they serious, of course, they are not life threatening. And if they are life threatening, we never had a patient die from it. And if a patient does die from a complication it always is resident who is the guilty person. （关于手术并发症，外科医生经常会如是说）：喔，忘说了，我们的手术从不出什么并发症。即使偶尔发生，也比其它同行们少得多，而且从不严重。如果真有些严重的，那也不会危及生命。就算是危及生命，也不会死人。退一万步讲就是死了人，那也是那个住院医生的错。 ------David Ligtenstein |
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