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A famous surgeon tells about the importance of self-confidence from his own experience.
一位著名的外科醫生以自己的親身經歷來談自信的重要性。
The Making of a Surgeon
外科醫師的成功之道
Dr. Nolen
諾蘭醫生
How does a doctor recognize the point in time when he is finally a "surgeon"？ As my year as chief resident drew to a close I asked myself this question on more than one occasion.
一個醫生怎樣辨認自己終于成了一名“外科醫師”的那一時刻呢？在我任住院主任醫師的那一年快要結束的時候，我曾不止一次地問過自己這個問題。
The answer, I concluded, was self-confidence. When you can say to yourself, "There is no surgical patient I cannot treat competently, treat just as well as or better than any other surgeon" — then, and not until then, you are indeed a surgeon. I was nearing that point.
我最后認定，問題的答案在于“自信”二字。當你能夠對自己說：“任何外科病人我都能勝任進行治療，我的治療跟其他外科醫生一樣高明，甚至比任何外科醫生都更為高明”——那時，而且只有到了那時，你才真正成了一名外科醫師。當時我正接近那個時刻。
Take, for example, the emergency situations that we encountered almost every night. The first few months of the year I had dreaded the ringing of the telephone. I knew it meant another critical decision to be made. Often, after I had told Walt or Larry what to do in a particular situation, I'd have trouble getting back to sleep. I'd review all the facts of the case and, not infrequently, wonder if I hadn't made a poor decision. More than once at two or three in the morning, after lying awake for an hour, I'd get out of bed, dress and drive to the hospital to see the patient myself. It was the only way I could find the peace of mind I needed to relax.
就以我們幾乎每晚都會碰到的急診情況為例吧。在那一年的最初幾個月，我一直害怕聽到電話鈴響。我知道電話鈴聲意味著又要作出一個生死攸關的決定。事情往往是這樣：在我告訴沃爾特或拉里對于某一特殊情況應如何處理之后，我就很難再重新入睡了。我會重溫那位急診病人的整個病情，常常會懷疑自己是否作出了不妥的決定。不止一次，在我躺了一個小時還睡不著之后，我會在凌晨兩三點鐘從床上跳起來，穿好衣服，駕車去醫院親自探視病人。唯有這樣我才能找到安心休息所需要的內心平靜。
Now, in the last month of my residency, sleeping was no longer a problem. There were still situations in which I couldn't be certain my decision had been the right one, but I had learned to accept this as a constant problem for a surgeon, one that could never be completely resolved — and I could live with it. So, once I had made a considered decision, I no longer dwelt on it. Reviewing it wasn't going to help and I knew that with my knowledge and experience, any decision I'd made was bound to be a sound one. It was a nice feeling.
然而，在我做住院醫生的最后一個月，睡眠已不再是個問題了。在有些情況下我仍然不能確定自己的決定是否正確，但我已學會把這看作一個外科醫師經常會遇到的問題，一個永遠也不能完全解決的問題——我已能適應它了。所以，我一旦經過深思熟慮作出某個決定，就不再去多想它了。多想也不會有什么幫助，而且我知道，憑我的知識和經驗，我作出的任何決定肯定都是穩妥的。這是一種令人愉快的感覺。
