大学英语精度第二册第六单元the making of a surgeon

A famous surgeon tells about the importance of self-confidence from his own experience.

一位著名的外科医生以自己的亲身经历来谈自信的重要性。
The Making of a Surgeon
外科医师的成功之道
Dr. Nolen
诺兰医生
How does a doctor recognize the point in time when he is finally a “surgeon”？ As my year as chief resident drew to a close I asked myself this question on more than one occasion.
一个医生怎样辨认自己终于成了一名“外科医师”的那一时刻呢？在我任住院主任医师的那一年快要结束的时候，我曾不止一次地问过自己这个问题。
The answer, I concluded, was self-confidence. When you can say to yourself, “There is no surgical patient I cannot treat competently, treat just as well as or better than any other surgeon” — then, and not until then, you are indeed a surgeon. I was nearing that point.
我最后认定，问题的答案在于“自信”二字。当你能够对自己说：“任何外科病人我都能胜任进行治疗，我的治疗跟其他外科医生一样高明，甚至比任何外科医生都更为高明”——那时，而且只有到了那时，你才真正成了一名外科医师。当时我正接近那个时刻。
Take, for example, the emergency situations that we encountered almost every