Friday, March 26, 2010

A compliment, I think

When the OR staff, in the middle of a bitch of a laparoscopic case involving a woman with a BMI significantly north of 60 tell me:

We'd rather be here than in the general surgeon's or ortho's room.

This is even with frequent cussing coming from my mouth. My assist was cussing too, and he rarely swears.

3 comments:

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Or they just love the smell of cauterized adipose in the morning.

rlbates said...

Take it as a compliment. :)

ER's Mom said...

I did. I felt bad for the team, to start the day like that.

The general surgeon and the ortho who share my block day are both assholes, so I know why folks are relieved to be assigned to my room, even if I do bring in the interesting cases.