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Talked to a surgeon who’d massively decreased his complication rates over the course of 2 decades despite moving towards newer and less-conservative techniques “How’d you do it?” “Some was getting better at surgery mechanically, but the biggest part is you can learn from talking which patients will disobey during recovery, heal badly or never be satisfied. I don’t work with those anymore.” “Heal badly? You can tell who heals better?” “You never know for sure, things can always come up. But after hundreds of surgeries a year you can make mostly good guesses from the questions people ask. Good healers ask questions about recovery, when they can start moving and get back to normal life again. Bad healers ask if surgery will fix all of their unrelated health problems, make them happy and bring back their dead dog from 2015. I can’t bring back dogs, so no point operating on those people”