Brandy Garza’s Reviews > Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science > Status Update

“Another from the University of Wisconsin, found evidence of a Lake Wobegon effect (“Lake Wobegon: where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”)”

“French researchers have discovered that, in order to eat more and eat it faster, people shorten their “chewing time” -they take fewer “chews per standard food unit” before swallowing.”

“No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn’t reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.”

“Skill, surgeons believe, can be taught; tenacity cannot.”