That strategy may very well end up skipping (well, delaying selection) of a surgeon that routinely takes much harder cases than yours. I don't know enough abou

That strategy may very well end up skipping (well, delaying selection) of a surgeon that routinely takes much harder cases than yours. I don't know enough about heart surgery to know if practice at more difficult procedures has any carryover to less difficult procedures, but it's conceivable . Your strategy might make sense, but it's not obviously optimal.