Hay Bach! The "OR Quotes" Twitter Feed

[George K]

Orthopedic surgeon: "I'm basically the same person I was when I was sixteen."

[George K]

RN: "[our hospital]--where everything sucks but the suction."

[bachophile]

@george-k I remember back in the day, when someone asked for the Lewinsky suction

[George K]

[George K]

General surgeon to student: "Try to work with the needle rather than bend it to your will."

[George K]

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.

[George K]

Best response:

Sounds like time to play a game of “page the attending and see whose pager goes off”

[Mik]

This student has a long and painful future ahead of them.

[George K]

"Anesthesiologist starts CPR and smart watch bleeps congratulating a workout."

[George K]

[bachophile]

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”

[George K]

@bachophile

[George K]

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."

[George K]

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."

[George K]

Orthopedic surgeon, responding to a question about why he would choose suture or staples to close a wound: "Staples if they're already ugly."

[George K]

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?"

[bachophile]

Seen on Twitter. I think only George will really understand….

if electrolytes could talk I just KNOW potassium would be soooo annoying

[George K]

@bachophile said in Hay Bach! The "OR Quotes" Twitter Feed:

if electrolytes could talk I just KNOW potassium would be soooo annoying

Either that or sodium.

[George K]

True story. At my place...

Surgeon: "Can't you move faster."
Nurse: "Doc, I have two speeds: this one and slower. Which would you like?"

[George K]

Surgeon: "Usually people who aren't good at what they do focus on the rules."