Thursday, June 6, 2013

WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN SURGERY!

Tiny excerpt from Heart Disease, Cancer, and More: A Nurse's Memoir:

However, if the nurse was two seconds off in handing off an instrument to the BB-surgeon, and disrupted the flow, this would break the ticking clock rhythm, giving the surgeon a flimsy excuse to start screaming.  He would take his arm and completely clear the nurse’s mayo-tray of instruments.  The instruments would fly all over the floor and a new mayo-tray would have to be set up again.  This particular surgeon was well-known for throwing pans full of water and other instruments up against the wall when some minor problem arose in the surgery suite.
Although I have related some "wild but true tales" in a chapter of my memoir about what goes on in a surgical suite of a hospital (sometimes), many people will find them hard to believe that professionals can act so bad. 

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