What the surgeon said ===================== * Alan Blum ![Figure1](http://www.cmaj.ca/https://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/190/41/E1240/F1.medium.gif) [Figure1](http://www.cmaj.ca/content/190/41/E1240/F1) > You won’t believe what that surgeon > > told me after the surgery. > > I have to laugh. > > “I enjoyed it,” he said. *See other sketches and notes by this author at cmaj.ca.* *This sketch and note date back more than three decades.*