Medical Center.
Surgical Practice Room.
"Adam, why waste time?"
Cristina looked around and complained, "Wouldn't it be better to spend our time preparing directly for the surgery?"
"This is pre-op preparation."
Adam walked in, stood before the doctors, and smiled. "This surgery will be extremely complex. If everything goes smoothly, it will take more than twenty-four hours.
For such a long, high-intensity operation, the assistants will need to rotate out periodically to stay sharp.
So even with me as the lead surgeon and Dr. Shepherd assisting, we'll still need four of the best doctors.
What we need to do now is find those four best doctors..."
As he spoke, Adam took out a crisp stack of one-dollar bills and placed them on the operating table. He pulled out one bill, face up, and put it beneath a microscope.
Then he picked up a paper cup with a round hole punched in it and covered the bill with it.
Holding a ballpoint pen, he stared through the microscope and imitated a neurosurgical procedure, guiding the pen tip through the hole in the cup and into it, leaving a mark on the bill beneath.
After finishing, Adam picked up the one-dollar bill and displayed it to everyone. "Whoever can accurately hit Washington's nose will be an excellent assistant for this surgery.
The stage is set. The rest depends on your own skills."
"I'll go!"
Carter was the first to raise his hand.
"You go!"
Adam smiled and stepped aside, yielding center stage to the eager young doctors one after another.
Just as he had said, this selection method was simple and direct.
You either could do it or you couldn't.
One try would tell.
Carter walked over and took a deep breath.
Honestly, he was a little nervous.
It wasn't that he