You're a surgeon. Would you operate on your own child?

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@kayaker

This.

Assuming, of course, the child has appropriate insurance coverage or else sufficient financial means to cover my hefty fee.

Not funny, dude.

[boytyperanma]

@Skald_the_Rhymer

Not funny, dude.

I laughed.

[wolfpup]

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

I’m a doc, I’ve first-assisted in major surgeries and done plenty of minor surgeries in the last 3 decades and change.

No way in hell I’d do significant procedures on family members unless it was an emergency. Not even if I was the ‘best’ (a ludicrous and highly suspect title in the first place, for almost anyone.) Emotions affect judgement and judgement is incredibly important during critical technical interventions.

I’m not a doc, but I can see that and I completely agree. I’d go even further and say that for some people, depending on temperament, it may even affect coordination and fine motor skills. Put a two-by-four up on a couple of bricks, and I bet most people would have no difficulty walking across it. Now put it up between a couple of girders fifty stories off the ground. Not only would most people have extreme trepidations about walking across it, I suspect many of them would fall off.