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FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
All the techniques here explained from the simplest to the more complex are subject
to complications.
Complications are undesirable results inherent to any human activity. It is the
same with medical practice, that even when conducted with maximum competence
is subject to unexpected factors that do not depend of the doctor’s will or action.
It is exactly because they know that complications exist that doctors
and patients should work together to prevent them, with a good and
complete preoperative evaluation of the operation procedure in conditions
of safety, associated to total candor of the patient towards the
information he reports to his doctor and meticulous respect to postoperative
prescriptions.
This way we will be fulfilling our part, eliminating to its maximum
unexpected factors which we know to exist.
Nevertheless, if a complication arises, we have to be ready for it
and undergo its treatment in a competent way.
The doctor is a technician that places all his knowledge and dedication
available to the patient. Even so, one cannot ignore his limitations,
like those of any other human being, and attribute him an unfounded
omnipotence.
And it is in this condition of a wise human being, but with limitations
and even with no guarantees, that he offers his patients his greatest
asset: his knowledge and unrestricted dedication.
JOSÉ CARLOS DAHER, M.D.
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