Your hands are shaking. Why are they shaking? They have never shook in your adult life. You are in your home..the operating theater. The lights, the smell, the sight of the table all very familiar to you even more than your house. You have lived in the operating theater ever since the age of 23 during your third year of medical school and you lived in many operating rooms ever since you became a neurosurgeon. After your residency you were excited to serve as a Major in the Army at the age of 32 years old. You served in three different wars seeing the absolute worst in humanity yet your hands held still providing life saving treatment and leadership during war and you eventually got promoted to Major General. Once you retired from the post of General at 42, your steady hands still gave guidance and treatment to young residents, trauma victims, and cancer patients. You developed drugs, investments, and techniques and made successful investments still making you millions. Then now at the age of 66 your hands are shaking, scalpel in hand but not due to a medical condition, but fear. Fear is something you haven’t felt in many years yet when you stare at the operating table something that has been a fixture in your adult life you feel fear as if it was the first time in the operating room.
What is on the operating table, why is this happening?
You decide!