Living in a Circle, with ready access to healers (including being one himself), Brigham has had little reason to be exposed to the work of surgeons and other non-magical doctors. The fieldwork he has learned has been only since arriving to Haven, and much of the mundane medical work remains foreign and rather strange to him. It has its place, of course. Healers are not always readily accessible, and some things, even magic cannot help (like arrows still in the flesh). "As am I," he comments thoughtfully. "I am glad for it, though. To risk soldiers to save soldiers is a difficult decision. It has been handled well."