Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Over time and experience as well as being exposed to some pop psychology by the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Nassim Taleb, Ori & Rom Brafman, Robert Krulwich, Jad Abumrad, among others, I have realized that patients assess surgical risk in very different ways with most using irrational considerations. Too often, physicians use statistics, numbers, and facts to counsel patients on risk whether it be surgical or some other medical i…