title: Complications - A surgeon's perspective and humanities' methods for personally dealing with them: The "4 R's".
abstract: Herein the author includes his philosophical take on how surgeons' deal with complications. He explains how often Mortality and Morbidity meetings miss a fundamental point of how the surgeon him/herself deals with complications. The author proposes a classification of the 4 commonest coping strategies used by mankind to deal with the doubt and uncertainty that a career in surgery, a real marathon, entails. This is explored in an honest, easy to read and amusing way with some real truths within.
authors.affiliation: Peritoneal Malignancy Institute, Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Electronic address: johnbunni@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bunni
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D066231:Surgeons / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: 4 Rs; Complications; Morbidity; Mortality; Philosophy