The following are Dr. Millard's Principles
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Preparational Principles 1. Correct the Order of Priorities 2. Aptitude Should Determine Specialization 3. Mobilize Auxiliary Capabilities 4. Acknowledge Your Limitations 5. Extend Your Abilities to Do the Most Good 6. Seek Insight into the Patient's True Desires 7. Have a Goal and a Dream 8. Know the Ideal Beautiful Normal 9. Be Familiar with the Literature 10.Keep an Accurate Record 11. Attend to Physical Condition & Comfort of the Patient 12. Do Not Underestimate the Enemy |
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Executional Principles 13. Diagnose Before Treating 14. Return What is Normal to Normal Position & Retain it There 15. Tissue Losses Should be Replaced in Kind 16. Reconstruct by Units 17. Make a Plan, a Pattern, & a Second Plan (Lifeboat) 18. Invoke a Scot's Economy 19. Use Robin Hood's Tissue Apportionment 20. Consider the Secondary Donor 21. Learn to Control Tension 22. Perfect Your Craftsmanship 23. When in Doubt, Don't |
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Innovational Principles 24. Follow-up with a Critical Eye 25. Avoid the Rut of Routine 26. Imagination Sparks Innovation 27. Think While Down and Turn a Setback into a Victory 28. Research Basic Truths by Laboratory Experimentation |
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Contributional Principles 29. Gain Access to Other Specialties' Problems 30. Teaching our Specialty is Its Best Legacy 31. Participate in Reconstructive Missions |
The Reconstructive Surgeon's Creed
Know the Ideal, Beautiful, Normal . . .
Determine what is present, what is diseased, destroyed, displaced, or distorted and what is in excess. Then guided by the normal in your mind's eye, utilize what you have to make what you want - and when possible, go for even better than what would have been!
