Performing surgery is not about empathy
The Surgeon had been handicapped by a burr in the plantar aspect of his left foot. All summer it had been causing discomfort on jogs, during soccer games, and,eventually, even just walking barefoot across the hardwood floors in the morning. There was something lodged in the thick skin of the strikeplate of his foot— a splinter, a piece of glass, whatever the hell— and it was really starting to cramp …