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/^t/Finally, a very trivial truth must be realized. Doctors are people themselves and nothing shields them from their own emotions, problems or the feelings that some patients arouse in them. Some of them feel grief for the people in their charge. They feel joy when some patients who were to die, survive and become healthy again. Some of them pray before an operation, like the neuro-surgeon who confessed "Things can go wrong. Operating on a brain is not like taking a car motor apart. There, if you strip a bolt, you can get another one. Here you deal with the most delicate tissues. I'm on the edge when I realize that one mistake means my patient won't survive."