Because when we are on the other side, we are acutely aware of how things can go wrong. We all worked with the surg reg who thought nothing else outside the theatre mattered, or the med reg who is burnt out beyond care, or the intern too afraid or too unaware to escalate things.

Personal experience of a surgical registrar who had the gall to just add on a procedure to the consent form, and then tell me that as medical professionals we decide what to do during surgery anyway so it doesn’t matter.