Every surgeon has the experience, some surgeons more than others. Maybe it's luck, it could possibly be skill, but in which, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, some imminent disaster doesn't loom, but appears, and it's usually when a large blood vessel is injured, and there's a cascade of blood all over the place.

It's terrifying, but what gets you out of it is several things. One is your experience that you've been in bad situations before, very bad situations before. Maybe they weren't terrifying, but they were very, very, very difficult. And you've gotten out of it. And I always think of all my years of training. You know, everything, all this stuff just comes up in your mind. All your years of training and how good one is technically. But perhaps the most important, and at the least, they second most important thing that goes through your head is you've got to keep everybody calm; if you don't keep everybody calm… this is going to be truly a disaster that's going to end up in the worst possible way.