The Operating Room is a Theater

Anything can happen

And then, it’s a matter of training

Someone told me long ago:

Six Inches of Cold Steel

Is Man’s Best Friend

Sometimes it goes like the movie in your head

Sometimes it’s like you walk out of the room years older than when you walked in.

One thing is certain:  There will be blood.

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I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

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From a Surgeon’s Point Of View

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This video in the second in a four part series. My goal is to have a few short videos rather than one long one. This way, the user will be able to select what is of most interest. They do not need to be watched in a specific order although they are presented in a logical order. The remaining videos are available on the GERD page that is on the menu.

 

The Other Side of the Curtain

It's 0730 and I'm not in the OR for a change. I'm in the surgery waiting room. Up at 0330, nervous, my wife in the shower with the antiseptic soap for her timed, three-minute last dose. Two hard-boiled eggs for me and a double coffee from the Kureg that she made while...

“The Dick”

There were no cars behind me. Why should there be? It was 0430 and I was at the stop sign on Wyatt St. six blocks south of Children’s. All I needed to do was turn right, like I had every other morning the past seven weeks. I saw the headlights half-a mile further...

Good Bye Angel

“Jesus Christ, take the trocar out. You shouldn’t be using it until you know what you’re doing, which probably isn’t going happen anytime soon.” She stood on the other side of the metal procedural table that was covered with a sterile drape on which the thoracostomy...

The Fat Thief

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