 He refused his services to minors even if they had parental consent, because he felt “the operation is definitive and irreversible and one… could not risk making a mistake.” His international patients were often admitted the afternoon they arrived at the clinic, and were prepared for surgery as soon as that evening or the next morning.Morris, who was one of Burou's most prominent MTF patients, recalled in her memoir "Conundrum" that he would do his rounds twice daily “dressed for the corniche and looking in general pretty devastating.” Morris recalled that he would sit at the end of her bed “and chat desultorily of this and that, type a few very slow words on [her] typewriter, read a headline from "The Times" in a delectable Maurice Chevalier accent, and eventually take an infinitely gentle look at his handiwork.”

Burou had little interest in finance and did not like to discuss financial matters with his patients; Morris quotes him