Guy de Chauliac makes some good points. It gets a bit tricky towards the end for some surgeons, perhaps. He appears to have been an early proponent of simulated surgery or skills labs, according to Wikipedia:
"It was seemingly from books that [Chauliac] learned his surgery.... He may have used the knife when embalming the bodies of dead popes, but he was careful to avoid it on living patients".
Dead popes can't be easy to come by.
Bearing in mind the bafflingly poor knowledge of anatomy in UK undergraduates now, he makes another observation:
"A surgeon who does not know his anatomy is like a blind man carving a log"
I've assisted at operations like that.
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