“Remember the Main!”

In residency, we had an attending who was fond of saying, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” He was right, of course. What I didn’t know then was that he was quoting Stephen Covey‘s bestselling self-help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), which I still haven’t read (hence remaining highly ineffective). And I assume that notion is also true of main drains…