Author(s): John Frawley

Fiction

The amazing privilege given to surgeons, to be trusted to run an enormous risk with some other human being's life, something almost inconceivable, was very humbling. It brought with it great excitement and a curious sense of recklessness, admissible only because the alternative for the patient was death. It was not wise, however, to selebrate success to loudly. Tomorrow it could be different.