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Re: 13 year old in the OR for C-secFrom: Jason Gardosi (jason.gardosi@nottingham.ac.uk)Mon Mar 18 05:39:29 1996
On 18 March 1996, Marc J Burkhart wrote: >None of the OR nursing staff are comfortable with a 13 year old observer and >I am not either. The patient says she is going to go 25 miles down the road >to the next hospital (where she delivered previously) Marc - In my General-Surgery training days, my boss brought his 14 year old son to watch him operate (a nehprectomy, from memory), against the advice of those who were in a position to speak up. Junior was watching from a safe distance, but fainted, fell backwards, cracked his skull, lost consciousness and had a hematoma. Thankfully no permanent damage in the end, but medicine/surgery may have lost a potential talent, and red-faced Dad learnt his lesson. Sure, relatives can faint during normal childbirth, but who knows what effect watching sugery has on a child. That you even have to consider this request, under threat of losing a patient, is a telling sign of today's world. The flip side of seeing patients as clients or customers is the danger of joining the ranks of other 'professions' (e.g. the ambulance chasers) who will happily compromise their own ethics and beliefs in a competitive world. The customer is not always right. Stick to your guns! Jason jason.gardosi@nottingham.ac.uk OB/GYN, Queen's Medical Centre University of Nottingham, UK
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