The patient is not even in the room yet. Surgeon Supreme has already made an entrance.
Surgeon Supreme does not simply enter the operating room. He arrives, framed by surgical lights, gown moving like a cape, while interns wonder if there should be ticket sales.
He is brilliant, precise, medically serious, and theatrically allergic to ordinary doorways. When everyone else sees a scrub sink, Surgeon Supreme sees the tunnel before the championship game.
His great challenge is not confidence. It is remembering that the room still needs a surgeon after the slow-motion entrance ends.
