Would this mean I couldn't be a surgeon?

[Baaaark]

I have somewhat shaky hands sometimes. I don't have any blood sugar or anxiety issues, I just have a natural shake to my hand. Given the nature of surgery, I figure that would rule me out of being able to operate on others. But, I wanted to ask some people here if this is a death sentence to my possible surgical career or not.

I'm really not all that excited about becoming a surgeon, but I'd still like to know if the option is open with my somewhat shaky hands.

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[HighPriest]

Are we talking extra shot of espresso shakey or Michael J. Fox shakey?

 

[patho]

Provided it's not "Michael J. Fox Shaky", you should be ok. I know an ENT that has unsteady hands and takes a Rx to allow him to operate.

 

[michaelrack]

I know an ENT that has unsteady hands and takes a Rx to allow him to operate.

Hopefully that prescription is a beta blocker and not 20 mg of Valium

 

[pslee]

I heard that cardio thoracic surgeons are using new machines for minimal invasive surgery and that machine minimized the hand tremor of the surgeon. I wouldn't become a surgeon taking pills for surgery.

 

[WellWornLad]

I recently learned how to solder, and it freaked me out at first because I couldn't hold the soldering iron still against the joint. My first thought was "well, I can forget about surgery."

Really, I was just nervous about ruining the components because I had never done any fine soldering before. After 2-3 joints my hand was steady as a rock.

Of course, I can't imagine how shaky I might be the first time I perform surgery. Did any surgeons have trouble their first time performing in the OR, or is it such a gradual process that such bumps are smoothed out along the way?

 

[Blade28]

I heard that cardio thoracic surgeons are using new machines for minimal invasive surgery and that machine minimized the hand tremor of the surgeon.

The da Vinci robot?