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My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex and pulled off one of the riskiest surgical procedures currently performed. Now I can walk. Hooray for

My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex and pulled off one of the riskiest surgical procedures currently performed. Now I can walk. Hooray for god complexes!

klyrs 4y ago
My dad's surgeon had a god complex and performed a surgery within an hour of getting off a transpacific flight, confident that he'd be immune sleep depravation and jet lag. My dad died because the surgeon cut something he shouldn't have cut. Glad you can walk though.
- Maursault 4y ago
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  - klyrs 4y ago
    As much as I love being called adorable at my advanced age, I have no clue what you're on about and I'm morbidly curious.
    - Maursault 4y ago
      >>>>>>> We are very lucky that cryptobros are arrogant to the point of having a god complex. >>>>> I do not want my surgeon to 'have a god complex'. >>>> My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex >>> My dad's surgeon had a god complex > I have no clue what you're on about and I'm morbidly curious. Proper nouns are capitalized.
      - klyrs 4y ago
        Oh, I see. Capitalization is a matter of style, actually, and not grammar. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines My curiosity has waned. But damn. You chose my comment about my father's death as your soapbox? Keep it classy, friend. May He take pity on you.
        Maursault 4y ago
        > You chose my comment about my father's death as your soapbox? What?! Sorry for your loss, but you are either gravely mistaken or intellectually dishonest, as I did no such thing.
      - eindiran 4y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex Wikipedia has it uncapitalized throughout the article. From Wiktionary[0]: """ The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers. The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well. """ This is a usage of the second type. Unless you think the surgeons in question are specifically _THE_ Abrahamic God? [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/God#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/God#English
- notch898a 4y ago
  There's definitely a question to be had, depending on the non-operable chances of the person and the availability of surgeons, whether it is worse to have one sleepy surgeon do more work at greater the risk or a fewer surgery at a lower risk. I am very sorry about your father. I guess my question would be, given our shortage of surgeons, would we be better off if they did less surgery with the tradeoff of lower per-surgery deaths but greater deaths from waiting too long / never / rising unaffordable prices due to scarcity. This seems like a case of an awful reality where some individuals die due to even greater shortage of surgeons or fewer die from shortage but more die due to lack of sleep/etc. The answer is clear at your individual level, less clear at the population level. To be clear, I'm not saying that was a good representation of the tradeoff in your family. But it did seem to become a real problem of tradeoffs during COVID when medical personnel were overworked. It definitely takes a certain kind of personality to make peace with "I can operate on two people who are do-or-die today and save an average of 0.8 of the two of them, or operate on one person today and save an average of 0.6 of the two of them." You'd have to go in knowing the population is better off while the per-surgery stat is worse off...

My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex and pulled off one of the riskiest surgical procedures currently performed. Now I can walk. Hooray for god complexes!

klyrs 4y ago

My dad's surgeon had a god complex and performed a surgery within an hour of getting off a transpacific flight, confident that he'd be immune sleep depravation and jet lag. My dad died because the surgeon cut something he shouldn't have cut. Glad you can walk though.

Maursault 4y ago
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- klyrs 4y ago
  As much as I love being called adorable at my advanced age, I have no clue what you're on about and I'm morbidly curious.
  - Maursault 4y ago
    >>>>>>> We are very lucky that cryptobros are arrogant to the point of having a god complex. >>>>> I do not want my surgeon to 'have a god complex'. >>>> My surgeon had (well, has, but also had) a god complex >>> My dad's surgeon had a god complex > I have no clue what you're on about and I'm morbidly curious. Proper nouns are capitalized.
    - klyrs 4y ago
      Oh, I see. Capitalization is a matter of style, actually, and not grammar. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines My curiosity has waned. But damn. You chose my comment about my father's death as your soapbox? Keep it classy, friend. May He take pity on you.
      - Maursault 4y ago
        > You chose my comment about my father's death as your soapbox? What?! Sorry for your loss, but you are either gravely mistaken or intellectually dishonest, as I did no such thing.
    - eindiran 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex Wikipedia has it uncapitalized throughout the article. From Wiktionary[0]: """ The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers. The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well. """ This is a usage of the second type. Unless you think the surgeons in question are specifically _THE_ Abrahamic God? [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/God#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/God#English
notch898a 4y ago
There's definitely a question to be had, depending on the non-operable chances of the person and the availability of surgeons, whether it is worse to have one sleepy surgeon do more work at greater the risk or a fewer surgery at a lower risk. I am very sorry about your father. I guess my question would be, given our shortage of surgeons, would we be better off if they did less surgery with the tradeoff of lower per-surgery deaths but greater deaths from waiting too long / never / rising unaffordable prices due to scarcity. This seems like a case of an awful reality where some individuals die due to even greater shortage of surgeons or fewer die from shortage but more die due to lack of sleep/etc. The answer is clear at your individual level, less clear at the population level. To be clear, I'm not saying that was a good representation of the tradeoff in your family. But it did seem to become a real problem of tradeoffs during COVID when medical personnel were overworked. It definitely takes a certain kind of personality to make peace with "I can operate on two people who are do-or-die today and save an average of 0.8 of the two of them, or operate on one person today and save an average of 0.6 of the two of them." You'd have to go in knowing the population is better off while the per-surgery stat is worse off...