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Tue Oct 17 02:13:16 BST 2006

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 KMATTOX at aol.com wrote:

>> In a message dated 10/15/2006 11:39:38 A.M. Central Standard Time,
>> aneurysm_42 at yahoo.com writes:
>>
>> Surely  such a larger-than-life man with the
>> accompanying nerves of icy steel  requisite to meet the
>> standards you have set can't be so easily undone  by
>> the screams of a grief-wrought family  member.
>>
>>
>>

> Does not happen, because they are not there.   My comments were  to describe
> a composite "me or us" to represent all members of the surgical  team, whether
> they be in the operating room or site in the EC, formal operating  rooms,
> SICU, or cath lab.

Perhaps more exposure to the non-patient population is called for?

As much as we all admire your [ever often] stated hyper human abilities, I
don't know that I'd prefer guaranteed life in the hands of an uncaring
surgeon such as yourself over uncertain death in the hands of someone a
little less perfect (but a whole lot more human) than you profess to
aspire.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org
0xBD4A95BF

"Surely the larger lesson learned from that day is that other men, all
over the world, took inspiration not from the heroism of the rescuers in
New York or the passengers flying over Pennsylvania, but from the 19
hijackers - the twisted brilliance of their scheme and their willingness
to sacrifice their lives to make a political and, as they saw it,
religious statement."

Richard Corliss/Time Magazine
11 Aug 2006

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