TheSecretSurgeon - Ask me anything - go for it!
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Sterillium said:
What's the grossest thing you've ever cut off?
Yes !!!!!!Now we're in business !!!
I cut a man's lower leg off, whilst he was awake on a trolley in A&E with him still awake.
It was hanging on by mere threads and skin.
The plastics guys took the (cut off) limb up stairs and harvested usefull stuff off it for 30 mins. before he was taken up, and they put bits back on him.
The student nurse stood next to me in A&E whilst I snipped went a funny colour and walked off.
And that's not the grossest, but just the one that comes to mind as hard core.
Go on chums, drop the level of questions., I'm posting anonymously !!
Meralgia paresthetica , numb skin upper thigh , caused by a trapped/damaged nerve
I have had this for some time now , my GP has said essentially I have to live with it , I am now getting waves of a hot/cold feeling and tingles .
Is there an invasive proceedure to deal with it. Or do I have to live with it ?
texaxile said:
My Mrs is a T&O Matron, also runs a fracture clinic etc (8B)
Do you share the same feeling of being dispondent and frustrated with the system, needless waste and other issues within the NHS as many other employees appear to?.
Yes,Do you share the same feeling of being dispondent and frustrated with the system, needless waste and other issues within the NHS as many other employees appear to?.
But if I'd won the £184million, I would still like to be a surgeon and operate
First off: Wow, what a job. Respect!
Do you get your pick of the nurses?
Have you ever heard of anything dropped into an open cadaver by mistake? Watch/ring/ash off the end of your ciggie?
Is it an urban myth or does an anaesthetic occasionally fail leaving the patient conscious but paralysed and having to endure the procedure? I'm guessing, hoping that monitoring equipment would pick up on this, and that the anaesthetic is a mix of potions... a 'Belt & Braces' approach, also, what do they use? Apologies if I should save this one for the 'Anaesthetist - Ask Me Anything' thread.
Thanks
Do you get your pick of the nurses?
Have you ever heard of anything dropped into an open cadaver by mistake? Watch/ring/ash off the end of your ciggie?
Is it an urban myth or does an anaesthetic occasionally fail leaving the patient conscious but paralysed and having to endure the procedure? I'm guessing, hoping that monitoring equipment would pick up on this, and that the anaesthetic is a mix of potions... a 'Belt & Braces' approach, also, what do they use? Apologies if I should save this one for the 'Anaesthetist - Ask Me Anything' thread.
Thanks
TheSecretSurgeon said:
Yes. We operate on some very fragile and ill people.
You have to have a mechanism for dealing with it.
It's terrible. But you have to process/accept/learn and move on
There is a quote from René Leriche, “Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures"
It's this. None are forgotten.
That is a wonderful quote!You have to have a mechanism for dealing with it.
It's terrible. But you have to process/accept/learn and move on
There is a quote from René Leriche, “Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures"
It's this. None are forgotten.
I'm a civil engineer and I too bury my mistakes. Fortunately they tend to be concrete or sewers in my case!
MXRod said:
Meralgia paresthetica , numb skin upper thigh , caused by a trapped/damaged nerve
I have had this for some time now , my GP has said essentially I have to live with it , I am now getting waves of a hot/cold feeling and tingles .
Is there an invasive proceedure to deal with it. Or do I have to live with it ?
There are lots of other things to try, Ask to be referred on to the hospitalI have had this for some time now , my GP has said essentially I have to live with it , I am now getting waves of a hot/cold feeling and tingles .
Is there an invasive proceedure to deal with it. Or do I have to live with it ?
Digger said:
What's the funniest moment you have had whilst operating etc?
I was once assisting (second in command) during an operation and the surgeon said "cripes this woman is so fat it's a wonder we can find her hip, what a fatty. It reminds me of one like this about 3 years ago, I needed a rope tied around me ankles"At which point the patient, who was awake (spinal injection not GA) said "yes that was me, you made the same joke about the rope last time and I was awake then too "
We all looked for a hole in the ground to swallow us up.
essayer said:
Did the leg get put back on then?
the muscle and skin was harvested to be put onto the stump, which was veyr short. He now as a same length stump but with more padding and a prosthesis fits much better. Clever eh?paulguitar said:
Have you read Henry Marsh’s books and of so, did you enjoy/relate to them?
Nope. I don't know this man. I don't watch any medical drama or similar as they are laughable inaccurate and I want time off work. Sci Fi is my thing.
I read War Doctor by David Nott, which made me cry and I now donate to his foundation
I read The Adam Kay book This is Going to Hurt, which I also shed a smal tear to in parts. And then realised I had just as many stories and hadn't written them down, and he was the rich author now.
Although he quit medicine, and I'm not to badly off
nuyorican said:
Ooh I know. Do you sign your work with a soldering iron?
No, it's quite frowned uponhttps://gizmodo.com/the-doctor-who-branded-a-patie...
and
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/22/nyregion/doctor...
and
TheSecretSurgeon said:
There is a quote from René Leriche, “Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures"
It's this. None are forgotten.
I love that quote!It's this. None are forgotten.
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