Louisville Medicine Volume 61, Issue 10 | Page 26

(continued from page 23) there are any real physical requirements for being a surgeon similar to, say, a fighter pilot’s needing 20/20 vision to fly a jet. Not really, Williams says, although if you’re hand is too small you may have trouble handling some of the newer instruments like the Harmonic scalpel. In early December, Williams will tag-team an operation with Marvin, who will take over at the end of a procedure to “slice of ” a piece of cancerous liver. During that operation, the two surgeons will resume their playful country boy/city boy routine. Marvin: “Has (the cancer) grown?” Williams: “It’s about the size of a