We talk about the Orioles. If I want to create tension, all I have to do is to insist that everyone stay quiet and watch me work. That's not what I want to do. But the real value of planning comes when things don't go the way I expect. Just yesterday, I had a case where a child had an anomaly in the skull and in the sagittal sinus - the channel that carries blood away from the brain.
Blood flows through there at a very high rate.
I told the anesthesiologist to have lots of blood in the room and to be ready for a major catastrophe. Sure enough, when we lifted the bone, a hole opened up and blood was squirting all over the place. It was a mess. The resident assisting me started to panic. Put your finger in the dike, just like the Little Dutch Boy.