Elca Branman on sun 13 jul 03
I just finished reading "Complications....A Surgeons Notes On An
Imperfect Science" by Atul Gawande
I was struck by his chapters on learning his knife..Essentially it was
similar to our training of our hands body and eye, to center, to know
when to take off more clay, ..to mesh our brains and muscles control
without consciousness of doing the same..His description of attending a
surgical convention could be NSECA, just different topics..
The kinetic learning, muscle memory, I don't know what the right words
are, but we have all experienced it..the finger in the glaze, the push
into the clay to align its degree of hardness and our degree of hand
pressure, all without really conscious thinking, just trusting our body's
memory.
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There's a chapre called The Computer and The Hernia Factory(catchy
title?) which , if,in terms of content and it were uncapitalized , could
have been written by Mel ....practice, practice, practice..
Anyhow, a terrific read
Elca Branman
http://www.elcabranman.com
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