@blondie said in "I dismissed a medical student.":
This is still done, right? Like for the stupid or annoying ones?
Slightly off topic...
I worked with a vascular surgeon from Virginia. His first name was Julius - of course we called him "Julie" which he preferred, actually.
Anyhow, Julie was a stickler for being on time. 7:30 case meant the knife hits the skin at 7:30 and woe be to the resident who's not there to ensure that happens. We always brought Julie's patients into the OR at 7:15.
(says the retired guy at 6:55 am, sipping his coffee, still in his jammies, LOL)
Anyhow, one day, we got the patient off to sleep, and the resident was nowhere to be found. Julie was in the lounge, expecting to walk in and start cutting at 7:30. He walked into the room, and there was nothing going on. No prepping...nothing.
So, he decides to prep the leg for the bypass.
At about 7:40, the resident comes into the room, and starts to apologize.
Julie says (Virginia accent), "You know, I think I'm just gonna go ahead and do this here fem-pop. Why don't you go make some rounds?"
I loved the guy. He and I got along very well.
Julie was a very athletic guy. He died in a scuba diving accident in the Bahamas in 1986 - never found out what really happened. He was 53.