he laughs. Most of his work in India is reconstruction. “Unlike other surgeons who can walk in to do the critical part of the surgery, I have to be there from the first incision to the final stitch because what I do is for everyone to see,” says Nooreyezdan, who gets women as y...
Given the common opinion that sur- geons were little more than bloodthirsty and untrustworthy knife-wielders, Hunter's words of caution are not surprising.40 Entering the abdomen was fraught with dangers to both patients' lives and practitioners' reputations. And yet, fostered by the experimental ...