Stop Making An Operation Out of Everything

The Sixth Commandment of Self-Brain Surgery™

In my operating room, before we start each surgery, I ask my team a question: “Do you all want to make an operation out of this?”

They reply, in unison, robustly, “No!”

I have done this in OR’s in Texas, Alabama, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iraq, and Germany. But it started in Pittsburgh.

My former professor, the late Peter Jannetta, was a world-famous neurosurgeo…