So technically, it's very demanding work. Oh, boy, you have a lot of success stories with carpal tunnel syndrome. Almost every time I see patients who can't sleep and I operate on them or treat them with conservative treatment, they come back and hug me, because now they can sleep. If you can't sleep at night, you're going to be a pretty miserable human being. But my favorite success stories are the surgeons I've operated on.
Surgeons actually get carpal tunnel syndrome as well.
Afterwards they are able to go back and operate without the numbness in their fingers. I get such good results from the surgery, I'm pretty happy with it. Patients know more about their clinical problems then physicians think they do, and that's a lesson of experience. Most young physicians coming out of training think they're pretty smart. But what I've learned from experience is to listen to my patients, because all things being equal, the patient knows more about what's going on than the physician taking care of them.