tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post9096727456988198863..comments2024-02-18T13:53:30.168-08:00Comments on Surgeonsblog: The Lung Way HomeSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-34076330264884468602007-09-05T18:54:00.000-07:002007-09-05T18:54:00.000-07:00Speaking from the other side of the ether screen, ...Speaking from the other side of the ether screen, I love giving one-lung anesthesia, and watching what you guys do during these cases. It's a thrill for me to to reinflate the collapsed lung, although I enjoy watching it collapse too. Good description, too - I like to call it the snap, crackle, pop of reinflation. <BR/><BR/>I've never actually squeezed the lung, although I'd like to give it a try. That, and lyse abdominal adhesions - that looks like so much fun, too.<BR/><BR/>Surgery is truly an amazing occupation and calling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-48686096680139272792007-09-02T06:27:00.000-07:002007-09-02T06:27:00.000-07:00This post was beautiful! I wanna be like Dr. Schw...This post was beautiful! I wanna be like Dr. Schwab when I grow up.DC Med Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09536998479604015998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-8470572981994998222007-08-30T17:34:00.000-07:002007-08-30T17:34:00.000-07:00Absolutely cool. I've seen live lung from a safe, ...Absolutely cool. I've seen live lung from a safe, non-sterile distance and through the screen during VATS, but my only tactile experience has been heavy, wet, dusky structures (ie, cadaver)--the opposite of your description. Even with such a gross anatomy description (ha!), one could <EM>easily</EM> tell the smokers from the non-smokers (and yes, all were mottled). The dankness of the formalin-preserved decay still didn't stop certain students from leaving the lab for their smoke break...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-7188319948314932352007-08-30T16:43:00.000-07:002007-08-30T16:43:00.000-07:00Greg: Naw, definitely fame. Or should I say "Gnaw?...Greg: Naw, definitely fame. Or should I say "Gnaw?"Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-22280683339556744672007-08-30T16:00:00.000-07:002007-08-30T16:00:00.000-07:00Just trying for the Comment Hall of Fame.Or is it ...Just trying for the Comment Hall of Fame.<BR/><BR/>Or is it Hall of Shame?Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-43142254195122156892007-08-30T15:59:00.000-07:002007-08-30T15:59:00.000-07:00One of the reasons I decided not to go into surger...One of the reasons I decided not to go into surgery was that, while assisting during abdominal surgeries, I would get incredibly hungry. It's not that the smells of an open abdomen are, shall we say, appetizing -- at all. <BR/>But taking it as some primordial tendency toward cannibalism, maybe foreseeing Hannibal Lector (who knows), I decided this was not a good thing.Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-27252567298006439012007-08-30T09:52:00.000-07:002007-08-30T09:52:00.000-07:00For those of us who don't know what our innards lo...For those of us who don't know what our innards look like, you're a wonderful literary photographer.Lynn Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958402288888144904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-32316736727901315962007-08-30T08:40:00.000-07:002007-08-30T08:40:00.000-07:00Sid, if I could only write like you...Sid, if I could only write like you...rlbateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-41766744093738230112007-08-30T08:04:00.000-07:002007-08-30T08:04:00.000-07:00In a high school physiology class taught by an ins...In a high school physiology class taught by an inspired woman named Jean Hill, she demonstrated blood before and after oxygenation by bubbling oxygen through blood I assume she got from the stock yards. It was amazing.<BR/><BR/>When I was an animal control officer, I sometimes had to collect an animal that had died when struck and dragged by a vehicle. If it were fresh, the long smear that created would start out purple with extremity blood and end up so bright it was nearly "hunter orange" with lung blood. Gruesome, but aesthetically intense.<BR/><BR/>Flesh -- almost an art form.<BR/><BR/>Prairie Marymscriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567509503405689139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-46986463231263951882007-08-30T06:53:00.000-07:002007-08-30T06:53:00.000-07:00I mostly lurk here but I wanted to tell you that I...I mostly lurk here but I wanted to tell you that I love the posts where you make it clear how much you loved doing certain surgeries. This one was beautiful and in a weird way so was the amputation one. I hope I never need another surgery but if I do, I hope my surgeon loves what he's doing. CarverCarverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968919406427737503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-19787670136080616242007-08-30T00:02:00.000-07:002007-08-30T00:02:00.000-07:00dear william carlos williams, oops, i mean shep nu...dear william carlos williams, oops, i mean shep nuland, oops, i mean richard setzer, oops, i mean sid,<BR/><BR/>man oh man was that a beautiful lung article! thank you, thank you. you captured the beauty and the privilege of it. i have to find a way to watch some surgeries in person. . but i know i wouldn't be close enough. . . i know the only thing that would satisfy me would be to assist. ah well, next lifetime.<BR/><BR/>your story reminded me a little of my median nerve release surgery. my hand surgeon told me that once he clipped the carpal ligaments (i THINK that's what he clipped), i could see the nerve "pink up" as the constriction was lifted and blood flow augmented. by damn, he was right- - well, not "pink" up, but whatever color betadine turns when there is more blood flow in the structure it's been swabbed on to.<BR/><BR/>thanks for a lovely, inspiring (hey! you started it!) post. :)<BR/><BR/>kcd (timbre440@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com