Surgical judgment: the skill no one sees from the gallery
When I was younger in surgery, I watched hands. I watched how senior surgeons held an instrument, how little unnecessary movement they made, how calmly they worked around a vessel that could turn an orderly operation into an emergency within seconds. Technical mastery was visible. You could stand across the operating table and recognize it.
I wanted that kind of control. Most young surgeons do.
In my first year of cardiovascular surgery …
Surgical judgment: the skill no one sees from the gallery
