Hay Bach! The "OR Quotes" Twitter Feed
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Everyone: "It's important to read to your baby."
Me, a surgery resident mom trying to kill two birds with one stone: "The majority of choledochoceles are small and can be managed with endoscopic sphincterotomy. These cysts are..."
wrote on 15 Nov 2021, 14:52 last edited by@george-k choledochoceles are rare, the baby isnt getting pertinent info
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Orthopedic surgeon: "I used to have self confidence issues, but then I realized how brilliant I am."
General surgeon: "We're all friends here in the right upper quadrant."
OB/GYN: "None of my patients are crazy. The midwife patients are all crazy."
Anesthesiologist to surgeon, who arrived late to the OR: "Your punishment is you have to listen to 14 minutes of Cher."
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Orthopedic surgeon: "I used to have self confidence issues, but then I realized how brilliant I am."
General surgeon: "We're all friends here in the right upper quadrant."
OB/GYN: "None of my patients are crazy. The midwife patients are all crazy."
Anesthesiologist to surgeon, who arrived late to the OR: "Your punishment is you have to listen to 14 minutes of Cher."
wrote on 24 Nov 2021, 18:53 last edited by@george-k better than yoko ono
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@george-k better than yoko ono
wrote on 24 Nov 2021, 18:58 last edited by@bachophile said in Hay Bach! The "OR Quotes" Twitter Feed:
@george-k better than yoko ono
Damn, I wish I had thought of that.
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Orthopedic surgeon: "I'm basically the same person I was when I was sixteen."
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RN: "[our hospital]--where everything sucks but the suction."
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@george-k I remember back in the day, when someone asked for the
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General surgeon to student: "Try to work with the needle rather than bend it to your will."
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One of my coresidents was playing with the blue rubber thingy on the IV fluid bags when it inadvertently flew into the surgical field (during an apparently particularly boring part of the operation)... surgeon’s response: “Well why don’t you just SHIT in there!”
Touché, surgeon.
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This student has a long and painful future ahead of them.
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"Anesthesiologist starts CPR and smart watch bleeps congratulating a workout."
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and then there was the time when a student was scrubbed in a neck dissection, and the attending dissected and exposed the accessory nerve. He pointed to it and asked the student sternly, what’s this nerve do? The student was taken aback, looked left and right to see if any help was coming and then just shrugged his shoulders. The attending says…”exactly, why can’t all the students know anatomy like this guy”
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and then there was the time when a student was scrubbed in a neck dissection, and the attending dissected and exposed the accessory nerve. He pointed to it and asked the student sternly, what’s this nerve do? The student was taken aback, looked left and right to see if any help was coming and then just shrugged his shoulders. The attending says…”exactly, why can’t all the students know anatomy like this guy”
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During the time out on a septic patient with multiple medical problems.
RN: "Any concerns?"
Surgeon: "I have no concerns."
Anesthesiologist: "Well, aren't you blessed."
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Orthopedic surgeon: "My department chair called to tell me I was late for all but 2 of my 41 first start cases. I told him the data has to be flawed. There's no way I was on time twice."
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Orthopedic surgeon, responding to a question about why he would choose suture or staples to close a wound: "Staples if they're already ugly."
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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General surgeon, draining a large retroperitoneal abscess: "Dr. Pimple Popper, eat your heart out."
Surgeon to anesthesiologist at the start of a long day: "Are you ready for the string of doom?"
