Surgical Complications in Minor and Major Surgery

Surgical Complications in Minor and Major Surgery

 

14 May 2019

A report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal proves what W. Gifford-Jones, MD has stressed for years. Namely, that practice makes perfect.  Whether you are a surgeon or a lumberjack. Surgeons who have performed over 1,000 major operations are less likely to make a technical error than less experienced surgeons who have done only ten major procedures.  The report shows it’s the same story for minor surgery —  more complications occur involving doctors having completed fewer procedures. As one Harvard professor remarked, “There is no such thing as minor surgery, but there are a lot of minor surgeons.”