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Variation 1:
# Eat when you can
# Sleep when you can
# Don't mess with the Pancreas

Variation 2:
# See a Donut (or slice, at some institutions), eat a donut (slice)
# Don't stand when you can sit
# Don't sit when you can lie down
# Don't lie down when you can sleep
# Never mess with the pancreas
# Nobody ever got a facial fracture who didn't deserve it

Variation 3:
# Tie before you cut
# A chance to cut is a chance to cure
# Every patient has at least three surgical lesions
# Never remove a tube after the sun goes down
# When you operate for pain you find it
# Treat the chief complaint
# All students cut sutures too long or too short


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