切 口
1.The decision is more important than the incision.Midline is the incision of indecision.
【译文】决策比切口重要，正中切口是不自信的切口。
【点评】实在找不到“decision”/“incision”/“indecision”这样一组既有趣又押韵的中文词来表达这两句话的文字韵味。
2.No incision signifies indecision, provided you can decide.
—— Moshe Schein
【译文】假如你能做决定，却不知用什么切口意味着你举棋不定。
【点评】切口选择反映一名外科医生的决断能力。
3.Pray before surgery, but remember God will not alter a faulty incision.
—— Arthur H.Keeney, 1920——1996
【译文】手术前祷告，但请记住选错了切口上帝也无力相助。
4.Students come to think that all a surgeon needs to know is how to adorn himself in robes and boots, how to cleanse his hands by some process of extraordinary severity and complexity, and how to make an exploratory incision.
—— J.Chalmers Da Costa, 1863——1933
【译文】学生们开始认为外科医生只需要知道如何穿手术袍和靴子，如何通过一些异常严格和复杂的流程清洗他的双手，殊不知还需要知道如何做一个探查性切口。
【点评】如何做一个探查切口才是考虑的重点。
5.When entering the abdomen, your finger is the best and safest instrument.
【译文】一旦进入腹腔，手指就是最好、最安全的器械。
【点评】前提是有合适的切口手指才能自如地发挥其功能。
6.When the doctor is in doubt and the patient in danger, make an exploratory incision and deal with what you find as best as you can.
—— Robert Lawson Tait, 1845——1899
【译文】当医生举棋不定，患者生命垂危时，做一个探查切口，你就能尽你所能地处理你所发现的任何问题。
7.The incision must be as long as necessary and as short as possible.
—— Theodor Kocher, 1841——1917
【译文】手术切口长度的标准是该长不怕长，该短不怕短。
8.Wounds heal across, not in length, but the longer the wound the greater the tension required to close it.
—— Mark M.Ravitch, 1910——1989
【译文】伤口愈合力的方向是垂直于切口而不是平行于切口，但伤口越长，切口两侧对合起来的张力就越大，愈合就越难。(https://www.daowen.com)
【点评】短短一句话将伤口愈合的生物物理学关系说得明明白白。
9.Incisions heal from side to side, not end to end, but length does matter.
【译文】伤口从一侧到另一侧愈合，不是从一端到另一端，但并非与长度无关。
10.A senior surgeon, when called to a difficult operation, first enlarges the incision, second - he begins to think.
—— Denis M.Arkhipov
【译文】每当叫到一位资深外科医生来救台时，他所做的第一步就是扩大手术切口，然后开始想“招”。
11.It is better if the patient goes to the plastic surgeon after an operation, with a large scar, than to the pathologist with a small one.
—— Denis M.Arkhipov
【译文】宁愿手术后患者带着一个大瘢痕去找整形外科医生，也不愿看到他留着一个小瘢痕去找病理科医生。
12.Big surgeon, big incision.
【译文】大外科医生大切口。
13.Little incisions are for surgeons with little brains.
【译文】“脑残”外科医生才用小切口。
【点评】微创外科年代，这两句话都过时啰！
14.Cut with the scalpel, don't scratch.
—— Mark M.Ravitch, 1910——1989
【译文】用手术刀“切”，不要“划”。
【点评】如今用“电刀”，此句应改为用电刀顶端“烧灼”，而不是“切”。
15.Surgeons must be very careful when they take the knife.Underneath their fine incisions stirs the culprit——life!
—— Emily Dickinson, 1830——1886
【译文】外科医生拿起刀时必须非常小心。别激惹了精致切口下的元凶——生命！
16.The incision should not look like charcoal——use the diathermy sparingly.
【译文】不要让切口烧成了黑炭——省着一点用电灼。
17.Two good incisions are better than one poorly placed.
【译文】两个好用的切口好过一个不好用的切口。