Dermatologists and surgeons tend to disagree about whether the skin should be debridement.
The true number of attempts is not known because surgeons tend to report their successes, not their failures.
Another problem is that in the medical literature very experienced surgeons tend to publish their results.
Wounded men were being carried back from the front line and laid in the open square behind, where surgeons tended them.
Quadra had his surgeon tend some of the wounded and promised to punish the aggressors.
And surgeons tended to take their personal implements with them, unless they died.
But because surgeons tend to report their best results, statistics in medical journals seldom offer a realistic picture of practice in all hospitals.
In "The Good Doctor," a surgeon tends to a man on an operating table whose hands have been cut off.
Though surgeons tend to be independent minded, they came to accept that his mountains of scientific data provided the best guide.
Many doctors and surgeons in Pakistani hospitals tend to be foreign qualified.