At Home Surgery Lessons
Every night I ask Sam one of two questions: if it's a day of seeing patients in the office, I ask if he had any interesting patients. If it's a day in the OR, I ask if he had any interesting cases. I ask because most of the time it results in anecdotes about things that can go wrong with hands and the ways to fix them. I'm learning a lot, actually, about hands and hand surgery. Yesterday at dinner, while he was telling me a particular anecdote, we got off on a tangent about suturing and the needles involved. Turns out they are all curved, like quilting needles. But they also come with the suture embedded in the needle. NICE! Sam said he probably had some at home that he'd show me. So today, after another brown bag lunch at the Pittsburgh Opera and some shopping, we had an impromptu lesson on suturing. At home. On the couch. On an orange. An otherwise healthy orange.
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2009-02-28 21:01
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As a student, I really appreciate it when someone notices an error I'm making and offers a helpful suggestion. I declare upfront that I am not a surgeon but I noticed that the doctor seems to have sewn the patient up without first making the incision. Step 1, make the incision; Step 2, remove something; Step 3, use your beautiful sutures to close 'em up. (Reply to this) (Thread) |
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(Anonymous)
2009-03-01 03:22
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Talk about hand surgery makes me want to dig out that photo of Z holding his severed finger in Korea. :)
-Michelle(Reply to this) (Thread) |
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