Re: You've done enough surgery when...
From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com)
Sun Feb 25 07:13:42 2007
You know you have done enough...
When tha anesthesiologist asks "why is the foley bag filling up with air?'
(cystotomy on lavh
When you pull out the varies needle and there is stool on its tip.
When When the path report comes back on a D&C showing ureter (my 65 year
old partner)
If you have been out long enough you have been there
"The best doctors have the best judgement, the best judgement comes from the
worst experiences" or something like that..." agf
>From: "R. Daniel Braun" <rd.braun@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: You've done enough surgery when...
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:32:23 -0600
>
>When you put the trochar *through* the Rt. Common Iliac artery.
>
>When you insert the scope through the trochar and see the preanesthetic
>antacid lining the stomach.
>
>When you see urine coming out the end of the tubular structure you just cut
>across.
>
>When your first hyst, a 39 y/o G13 P13, on PO day 6(5 minutes prior to
>discharge) flips a saddle embolus and dies.
>
>Those are the big ones that come to the front of my head.
>
>Dan
>
>On 2/23/07, Elrod, Darryl G Maj 48 MDOS/SGOBO <
>Darryl.elrod@lakenheath.af.mil> wrote:
>>
>> You can fill in the blanks, but for me this week it is
>>
>>…when you nick the peritoneum overlying the aorta with your umbilical
>>trocar insertion, causing a hematoma that looks concerning, having to call
>>the general surgery brigade in to evaluate. Now THAT is a sinking
>>feeling.
>>
>>Thankfully the patient did well and was sent home a few days later after I
>>finally got the nerve to let her go.
>>
>>Glen
>>
>>//SIGNED//
>>
>>D. Glen Elrod, Maj., USAF, MC
>>
>>Obstetrician/Gynecologist
>>
>>Chief of Obstetrics
>>
>>48 MDOS/SGOBO
>>
>>RAF Lakenheath, England
>>
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>--
>R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT
>Professor Emeritus
>Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
>Indiana U. School of Medicine
>
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>
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