Which surgeons have the best hands?

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For better or worse, the reality is there is a bell curve of skill in every surgical specialty.
I am assuming there is a bell curve in the difficulty of each surgical procedure as well, so it works out unless the patient is an outlier in terms of difficulty and the surgeon is on the other end of the bell cure in terms of skill.
 
I'm an IR hopeful. Does this require really steady hands?
Many people on my dad's side have benign hand tremors. I'm 26 and nothing so far - but is there a test for this before going into the pipeline?
 
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For those who haven't spent a lot of time in pre-osteo and osteo, here's a few things you need to know. "Breezy" is a recurring troll who reincarnates himself under a different username after he gets banned (a weekly occurrence). We mostly refer to him as Space Hamster Boo, after his original incarnation. He has a certain "tone" that directly gives his identity away. One recurring characteristic is that he will always adamantly claim that he is not space hamster, in a particularly condescending way.

I promise you his "cranial CSF fluid waves" thing is a troll effort.

Cranial CSF fluid waves are an actual thing in osteopathic medicine, although it can be hard to actually find someone who truly believes it. Literally every DO I've ever met (excluding some OMM faculty) refers to it sarcastically.

Everything about this post is true except for the part about Breezy being HamsterBoo!


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