Question about becoming a surgeon?

Question

I was thinking of becoming a surgeon when I get older and I'm sure my grades are good enough if I do decide to. I'm just worried about the pressure. If you s***w up on one surgery, even if it is difficult, is your career over? Does schooling help you so much that you won't s***w up or what? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Well its alot of long hours in college, years in fact, and if you were a surgeon and messed up thats why doctors have mal practice insurance which I'm betting isn't cheap for them to pay every year but it protects them against anything that could happen..

Answer 2

Surgery is a great specialty. Training takes a long time, five years after med school. Surgeons are human and they do s***w up. If you mess up in one surgery, your career is not over. Making mistakes is part of medicine and surgery. Training does help to minimize mistakes. If you have your mind set in becoming a surgeon, go for it. There is book called "The making of a surgeon". I can't remember the author, but it's good reading.