Abstract

Thank you very much, Ladies and Gentleman. I am very honored by the invitation to give a keynote address at this very informative, national meeting, before such a distinguished audience.If you made a list of the hundreds of different activities that go on during the day in a major medical center and tried to rank order them in terms of degree of difficulty, or judgment required, or risk of error, or damage that can result from an error of omission or an error of commission, at the top of the list one might consider the teaching of a surgical resident at the operating table by a senior experienced surgeon, hours on end, often emotionally draining.