does anybody know what ole benny boy's morbidity and mortality rates as a surgeon were?

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8. No, but I am familiar with his work from when I lived in Baltimore.

Both tend to be high for neurosurgeons generally (we know less about brains than most parts of the body and surgery in that area is more delicate work than most surgery)...and he specialized in very high-risk procedures such as radical hemispherectomy (removal of an entire brain lobe...often used to treat certain severe seizure disorders) and separating twins conjoined at the head. It's not really much of a matter of debate that he is an exceptional surgeon though.

He's just "blessed" with those other traits common of surgeons: hubris, hyper-ego and feeling that his finely-tuned area of expertise makes him smarter than in other subject areas than experts in those fields. Doctors in general don't make great politicians; I would expect surgeons to be worse even.