Beware the keynoters

Alun Rees explains why we shouldn’t trust speakers who don’t show any of their failures. In his wonderful memoir, Do No Harm, neurosurgeon Henry Marsh discusses some of his failures and the circumstances that led to them. The chapter is appropriately called ‘Hubris’ and one story struck a chord with me. He writes about the conference keynote speakers who, when showing their post-operative scans, have never left any residual tumour. In one case the thought of this encourages him to take a risk after 15 hours of surgery. He tears a small perforating branch of the basilar artery, which supplies the brainstem; the consequence of his action was the patient never woke up. Hiding mistakes? The mention of the keynote speakers took me back

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