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> You certainly don’t want an old surgeon operating on you. When I had gallbladder surgery a few years ago, it felt VERY reassuring to have a surgeon in his 50
by microtherion 8y ago
> You certainly don’t want an old surgeon operating on you.
When I had gallbladder surgery a few years ago, it felt VERY reassuring to have a surgeon in his 50s who could cite a track record of hundreds or thousands such surgeries, with a minuscule complication rate.
You do NOT want a surgeon fresh out of med school who hacked a GAN into a surplus Tesla industrial robot to perform the procedure, no matter how bleeding edge that would be.
- danieltillett 8y agoSurgeons reach their peak in their late 40s and decline. If the level the surgeon got to was very high then they may well still be very good, if not as good as they were when younger. I do agree that you don't want to be one of a younger surgeons learning cases.