第六章 经验
1.Good surgical judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor surgical judgment.
【译文】高明的外科判断来自经验，而经验来源于过去外科判断的失误。
2.Experience is the mother of truth; and by experience we learn wisdom.
—— William Shippen Jr, 1736——1808
【译文】经验是真理之母，我们从中获得智慧。
3.The interns suffer not only from inexperience, but also from over experience.
—— William Stewart Halsted, 1852——1922
【译文】第一年住院医生的苦恼不仅来自缺乏临床经验，也来自负担过重的临床工作。
4.Each one of us, however old, is still an undergraduate in the school of experience.When a man thinks he has graduated he becomes a public menace.
—— J.Chalmers Da Costa, 1863——1933
【译文】我们每个人，无论年龄多大，都依然是“经验”学校的一名在读本科生。一旦自认为毕业了，就会成为公众的威胁。
【点评】谦受益，满招损。
5.Age carries mental scars left by experience, which shortens vision, but age carries wisdom.
—— William J.Mayo, 1861——1939
【译文】年龄蚀刻着经验留下的精神瘢痕，它让人变得短视，却承载着智慧。
6.Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
—— William J.Mayo, 1861——1939
【译文】经验是伟大的老师；不幸的是，经验会留下心灵的瘢痕，并且瘢痕组织还会收缩。(https://www.daowen.com)
【点评】心灵瘢痕收缩的结果会让痛苦的记忆变得扭曲，变得谨小慎微与过分保守，“一朝被蛇咬十年怕井绳”。
7.From experience we should derive wisdom; but in surgery experience is never finished, and wisdom is never complete.
—— William Heneage Ogilvie, 1887——1971
【译文】我们应当从经验中获得智慧，但外科经验永无终结，智慧增长也永远在路上。
8.The definition of experience is knowledge acquired too late.
【译文】所谓经验就是迟来的知识。
9.What we call experience is often a dreadful list of ghastly mistakes.
—— J.Chalmers Da Costa, 1863——1933
【译文】我们所说的经验往往就是一张令人恐惧的错误清单。
10.Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
—— Oscar Levant, 1906——1977
【译文】幸福不是你经历了什么，而是你记住了什么。
11.A surgeon is a craftsman, basing his craft on a wide knowledge of human structure and biology, always gaining by experience of the results of his work.
—— Geoffrey Keynes, 1887——1982
【译文】外科医生是一名工匠，其精湛的技艺来源于他对人体结构和生物学知识的广泛了解，以及其不断积累的工作经验。
12.Do not say "in my experience" until you have been in practice at least ten years.
—— Clifton K.Meador
【译文】没有10年的摸爬滚打，千万不要说“根据我的经验”。