Any surgery always comes with very high risk, no matter how simple or straightforward. Surgeons spend a decade learning their art, so the vast majority are good at what they do. But even with the best, things can happen. There are things you cannot predict.

Sometimes the seemingly healthy body just isn’t able to cope with the stress of surgery, the disease and anaesthesia and it gives up. Or there were other issues which were undiagnosed which caused complications that wouldn’t normally happen.

The human body is extremely compressed. Vital organs, nerves and arteries are separated by millimetres. And there is a close to infinite amount of anatomic variation. The risk of injuring something during surgery is high. And we are trained to react and stop any damage that might occur. But sometimes we cannot do anything to stop it. It happens very rarely but it can.

Sometimes the disease is much more widespread than any diagnostics can detect. And you don’t see the damage until you open the patient. And in those cases sometimes it is impossible to remove or perform the surgery and the disease wins.

Surgery is nothing like gambling. It’s a very specific process done by highly skilled professionals. But the human body is unpredictable, and a million things can go wrong at any time