SURGEON & PATIENT
Risks of Operating Theatre WOMEN BRAVER THAN MEN London, April 30. Discussing operation risks, Dr. Basil Rooke, in an article in “Tlie Practitioner.” says: “Women suffer pain better than men, face trouble more bravely, and are therefore better pat>ients.” Dr. Rooke is of opinion that. Jews are the surgeon’s worst risk owing to their liability to complications, while stoical low-class Chinese are the best. Hard-living men, such as sailors, farmers, miners and navvies, are good risks for the surgeon. Successful business men. publicans, and butchers, all of whom tend to over-feed, are poor risks. Musicians and other possessors of tlie artdstic temperament are unfavourable patients. So are clergymen, doctors, and nurses, owing to their fear of death and mistrust of their fellows.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 184, 2 May 1933, Page 9
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