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Originally Posted by FrankRN
This is actually a national standard which is supposed to be done to ALL patients before ANY surgery. I have personally seen physicians, especially residents, who are running behind or sick of waiting, roll a patient themselves down to an OR instead of waiting for the staff. It must be tough to be so important that the rules don't apply to them.
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Lord. I hope to never meet one of those residents. I also marked the knee that needed to be operated on. It was a nurse who handed me the marker. I did tell the surgeon he could screw up and give me implants for free without penalty, but he couldn't amputate or operate on the wrong knee
