We have our faults and virtues; we meet with failures and achieve

successes. Many of our faults are entirely unavoidable , and arise from the fact that medicaine is not an exact science … some things are quite impossible, and our work is carried out upon a living, breathing,complexity called a man, and not upon a jar, a chemical mixture in a retort, or a wooden Indian from the front of a cigar store.

我們稟賦善良卻難免過失，我們遭遇失敗也收獲成功。過錯難以完全避免，因為醫(yī)學(xué)還不是一門精確的科學(xué)…有些事情完全不可能,因為我們面對的是一個個活生生的、有呼吸、頗具復(fù)雜性的人，而不是一只廣口瓶---實驗臺上那種進(jìn)行復(fù)雜化學(xué)實驗的玻璃瓶---，也不是雪茄店門口擺設(shè)的那種印第安木偶。

------J Chalmers Da Costa, 1863—1933

The one who does not operate does not have complications.

不做手術(shù)就不會有并發(fā)癥。

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No matter what you do, the number of complications will be double if a patient or his spouse is either a physician or a nurse.

無論你怎么做，如果病人或他的配偶是醫(yī)生或護(hù)士，并發(fā)癥的發(fā)生一定翻倍。

Operating on doctors` families: a big compliment with most complications.為醫(yī)生的家屬做手術(shù): 是一種具有極大風(fēng)險的褒獎。

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Surgical complications are more likely on public holidays.

手術(shù)并發(fā)癥更多發(fā)生在公眾假期。

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The rule of “2”: when you hear a surgeon telling hid number of performed cases , divide it by two. When he tells about his complication rate ,multiply it by two.

“2”法則: 外科醫(yī)生告訴你他手術(shù)的病例數(shù)時，除以2。而他講他的并發(fā)癥發(fā)生率時，乘以2。

------Rick Paul

Oh yeh, I forgot. None of us, of course, ever has any complication with whatever operation we perform. And if we do have complications they occur much less frequently anyway than those of others, and are never serious. And if they serious, of course, they are not life threatening. And if they are life threatening, we never had a patient die from it. And if a patient does die from a complication it always is resident who is  the guilty person.

（關(guān)于手術(shù)并發(fā)癥，外科醫(yī)生經(jīng)常會如是說）：喔，忘說了，我們的手術(shù)從不出什么并發(fā)癥。即使偶爾發(fā)生，也比其它同行們少得多，而且從不嚴(yán)重。如果真有些嚴(yán)重的，那也不會危及生命。就算是危及生命，也不會死人。退一萬步講就是死了人，那也是那個住院醫(yī)生的錯。

------David Ligtenstein