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UNIT 6 The Making of a Surgeon A famous surgeon tells about the importance of self-confidence from his own experience. 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. 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. Take, for example, the emergency si