It's because I'm flexible. The only way to handle risk is to be brutally honest about it. If parents aren't prepared for what can go wrong, then we shouldn't be talking about surgery. Still, people need hope. The mind controls so much of the body.
Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better.
That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. I don't say that to. I once had a patient with a brain tumor. She'd had radiation, she'd been operated on by several people, but nothing had worked. As I was taking out the tumor, she suffered catastrophic hemorrhaging.