Really good carvers are partly really good, because they have excellent hand control. I know a couple of guys that I love to see their work, but I absolutely get weak kneed watching them, because they so often look like they are about to carve themselves. Now I worked ER for over 25 years, and every day saw blood and guts enough that you would think I wouldn't ever get weak kneed. I believe the difference was with my carver friends I thought I was going to see it happen, with patients all the damage was already done, all that was left was to try to fix it.
So in the end, if every time you carve, you end up in the ER, buy some guards, or chainmail gloves, which BTW is what I wear. Or you may wanna swap to knitting?