sayings

• “beware the bear” people who come in with a teddy bear will always bring trouble
• “Red hair - beware” dyed hair + rangas cause problems
• “Do the easy part, leave the difficult. Do the surrounding easy parts and what was hard will become easy”
• “Doesn't matter how good a surgeon you are, the patient will only judge you on the scar”
• “Burns, hands and face trauma all the same kinds of patients just at different parts of their life”
• Re: vascular referrals “don't involve me in your shitty, non-healing wound”
• “You gotta be horny for the grind”
• “You know the old saying, don't fuck up”
• “If you can't tie knots, tie lots”
• “It's better to be lucky than good”
• “The grind stays ground”
• “Get better, not bitter”
• “Anatomy is cool, but like… who cares” - not a surgeon
• The wandering artery of (insert surgeon name here)
• Long standing pressure injuries are the herald of death
• Treat and yeet
• Re: skin grafts: “If it dries it dies”
• Most common new murmur is an old murmur nobody found