A Blast From the Past: My Big Mistakes — And What I Learned From Them

By Lyndall Stein

I have a good friend who is a brain surgeon from Germany. One day I asked him, "The rest of us are always saying that it's good to learn from our mistakes and no one is going to die — we're not brain surgeons. So, Jorn, what do you brain surgeons say?"

"Well," he replied, "sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we learn from our mistakes … and sometimes people die."