Some Surgical Aphorisms
1)When the hospital’s janitors come to you with their hernias your practice is well established.
2)The last man to see the necessity for re-operation is the man who performed the operation.
Mark M. Ravitch (1910–1989)
3)A negative re-laparotomy is better than a positive autopsy but is not, nevertheless, a benign procedure.
Robert Saadia
4)It is painful to re-operate on your own complications; it is fun to do on complications of another surgeon. Moshe Schein
5)If you see 2 surgeons laughing, someone is in trouble.
6) The first report of any new operation is rarely unfavorable. Mark M. Ravitch (1910–1989)
7) The rule of “2”: when you hear a surgeon telling his number of performed cases, divide it by two. When he tells of his complication rate, multiply it by two.
Rick Paul
8) It is not true that the appendix is worthless—it has put thousands of surgeons in expensive cars.
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