Lila Haile “Je le pansai et Dieu le guérit.”1 Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) is one of the founding fathers of surgery. Born in a village near Laval-in-Maine, France, Paré became an apprentice to a barber-surgeon at the age of 15 and went on to become a surgical dresser at the Hotel Dieu in Paris. A self-taught…