“You young beginning surgeons, open your ears and remember with diligence this short word. When you are called to a patient, if the matter appears to you too difficult or not entirely familiar do not be ashamed to send after one or two other surgeons so that they can help you and give you good advice from which you and the patient can derive great benefit…if everything goes well, you will share in the success. If things go wrong, they will share the burden.”
Hieronymous Brunschwig – from the Book of Cirurgia, 1497