A Couple Of Little Pieces
July 8, 2015 11:21 AM   Subscribe

A lesson in the OR that prepared this doctor to be a surgeon is the title of a post in which the author describes a training surgery where the resident deliberately inflicted damage on a non-consenting patient in order to create a "teaching moment."

So here I was, handling the plane (the layer, or space) around the IVC with care to avoid ripping it. It seemed like the intelligent thing to do. My attending asked, “Why are you being so dainty with your dissection there?” I answered that I wanted to avoid ripping the cava because they’re so much harder to fix.

Big mistake.

I take it he interpreted my comment as fear, and decided upon a teaching moment. He took his scissors and incredibly, before my eyes, and with no warning or preparation of any kind, cut a one-inch hole in the cava.


She has since claimed it was fiction.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like it's in sort of a weird liminal state as post material; either it's fiction in which case it's clickbaity fiction presented otherwise, or it's not and something weird is playing out with the positioning of it after the fact. Maybe let it settle down and then revisit whether the stable state of things is interesting enough for a post at that point. -- cortex



 
In a world powered by click-bait, "fact" and "fiction" become meaningless concepts.

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posted by Avenger at 11:25 AM on July 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:27 AM on July 8, 2015


If it's fiction it's not really very interesting. If it's not fiction it's interesting in a way that's really different from what the author intended.
posted by GuyZero at 11:32 AM on July 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


If this is/ were true, it seems quite dangerous to the patient, who would have a larger wound to heal, and the potential for trouble seems pretty high. If this happen(ed) at a hospital, and were known, what would the consequences be?
posted by theora55 at 11:41 AM on July 8, 2015


In a world powered by click-bait, "fact" and "fiction" become meaningless concepts.

Plus ça change...

"And how did Ross, the editor who essentially invented fact-checking and was notorious among writers for his fanatically literal-minded queries, let Mitchell get away with this?"
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:45 AM on July 8, 2015


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