socialised medicine at its best

[FrankRN]

Originally Posted by StewartG

My wife is a CRNA and works all day in the OR. She says she sees that a couple of times a month. Everyone in the OR thinks its pretty smart.

I'm thinking about getting "the big V." If/when I do, should I write "THIS IS MY PENIS - THIS IS NOT PART OF THIS PROCEDURE - DO NOT CUT, REMOVE, MUTILATE OR DISTURB UNDER PENALTY OF SEVERE CIVIL LIABILITY" on my tallywhacker?


(Yeah, I wish!)

WOW ... can you also write your full name on a grain of rice?

[Rissask]

Originally Posted by FrankRN

WOW ... can you also write your full name on a grain of rice?

Zing!

(So Stewart, can you? That is fairly impressive.)

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Where have you seen a Yugo?
Stogey you should know that we are pretty much the same here as in the US, when it comes to classes.

I forgot that it had a US license plate on it, and that a yugo is probably below most of yalls taste.

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by FrankRN

Something like this JUST HAPPENED in a Boston teaching hospital, though it did not involve a penis. The surgeon operated on the wrong body part. He ignored protocol and policy which would have caught the error before it happened.

The hospitals spin: He was so caught up in how to approach a difficult procedure that he failed to catch the error in time.

I'd say he was not caught up enough in the procedure. Such errors occur all the time in the USA and have absolutely nothing to do with socialized medicine.

Many of these happen in VA hospitals. Which are basically an experiment of socialised medicine.

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by FrankRN

I don't know ... I've seen an aweful lot of private parts in my time as an RN. Some people are not as endowed as others and it all blends together ... especially in a cold operating room after you've been anesthetised.

You mean that a private part could be mistaken for a guys nuts? I have many questions about this, but they're left to a more appropriate place such as my smoke shop.

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by Skiptown

You can write all that on that part?

Mine has supercalifragulisticsexpealidosis tatooed on it.

[MaripositaII]

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.

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

[StewartG]

Originally Posted by STOGEY

Mine has supercalifragulisticsexpealidosis tatooed on it.

So does mine, but under *ahem* normal circumstances, it just looks like "sis." Quite embarassing, actually.

[Sue]

Originally Posted by StewartG

So does mine, but under *ahem* normal circumstances, it just looks like "sis." Quite embarassing, actually.

You're funny!

[StewartG]

Originally Posted by Sue

You're funny!

Thanks!

[Sue]

Originally Posted by StewartG

Thanks!

Oh, no. Thank YOU!

[FrankRN]

Originally Posted by MaripositaII

Lord. I hope to never meet one of those residents.

They'll most likely be introduced to you as "doctor" and you'll never know they are refering to themselves in the future tense.

[Joana]

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.

Standard here as well.........don't ask me how many legs, arms and other pairy organs I have X-ed during my four months in surgery. And how many thryroids I have marked. In fact the edding-pen was my best friend.

Here all patients have to wear wristbands now with their name on, they get marked. Before surgery starts the anaesthesiologist checks everything once, then the surgeon in charge checks a second time and has to fill in a document before first cut.
And now they have also made a new "minute to think before first cut" rule.......once all are on/at the table there is a minute of waiting before the first cut to do one last check.........great option for me to flirt with the cute guy from anaesthesiology- although I have a hunch it was not meant for that.