tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post3987709361540037641..comments2024-02-18T13:53:30.168-08:00Comments on Surgeonsblog: Personal ParadoxSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-62040265423819842732007-05-12T15:15:00.000-07:002007-05-12T15:15:00.000-07:00Whoa. You know this post also serves to confirm so...Whoa. You know this post also serves to confirm some aspects of the general stereotype of surgeons: obsessive perfectionists with (to the casual observer) sometimes ridiculously high standards. Is it really like that? I mean we see it on TV all the time, and this post seems right on the mark, but is surgery really - as one of my hospital doctors told me once - more like 'The Apprentice' than say 'Scrubs'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-50801053188228549342007-05-11T19:53:00.000-07:002007-05-11T19:53:00.000-07:00Best to clear the air of fluff before getting inci...Best to clear the air of fluff before getting incisive...Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770384445526387065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-5221412822942395552007-05-11T18:57:00.000-07:002007-05-11T18:57:00.000-07:00seaspray: all of the above, I suppose. I think tha...seaspray: all of the above, I suppose. I think that whereas all docs face stress, surgeons face a higher level and a greater amount, regularly. Some handle it better than others. All -- or nearly all - blow a fuse once in a while.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-74715836548613095672007-05-11T18:43:00.000-07:002007-05-11T18:43:00.000-07:00Hi Dr S.-if I do go to the OR - I hope my surgeons...Hi Dr S.-if I do go to the OR - I hope my surgeons are like that.<BR/><BR/>Aren't surgeons and OR staff prepared for big surgeries? Who sets up and don't they have a checklist or something? <BR/><BR/>I don't have a clue what they do in there but if I were the tech that sets up - I would probably start out notating which doctor prefers what and use it until I could set up and anticipate what they work with. I would think that after awhile it would become as natural as breathing - excluding horrendous OR cases going south or pubic hair being shaved when it shouldn't. PUT IT BACK! LOL! Sorry-STILL FUNNY!<BR/><BR/>It is my observation that the surgeons are the ones who have a rep for going ballistic. In working with Docs for 20 years I have seen some grouchy doctors - sometimes. Most ER docs seem to let things roll off them. They get mad but I have rarely seen them take it out on the staff, not ballistically. We had one ER doc who would occasionally go ballistic over something stupid - well except for the eyebrow incident, but he was also a surgeon at a city hospital besides and would've been up all nite working down there and then come here and have to do 24 hrs unless someone came in. So, I think it was more a matter of sleep deprivation because he was a great guy with a keen sense of humor. I know of a cardiologist who got real angry at some one during a code but the person didn't do what he TOLD her to do and it was a code. Yes, I definitely know some surgeon stories. So why is that? Does surgery draw in a certain personality type? Also, is it the demands of a surgical residency? <BR/><BR/>I remember in one of the Grey's Anatomy prologues someone said something like and this isn't verbatim " When a surgeon picks up that scalpel to operate - they may or may not do more harm then good, so if that surgeon isn't willing to commit - then that have no business picking up that scalpel in the first place." Dr. S. I know that you are not talking about commitment, and I know that you guys love to operate - it's what you do - but there is so much responsibility and when things go bad they can go really bad and you do have peoples lives in your hands. So is it the pressure of needing to be perfect and expecting it in others because of the awesome responsibility? or is it the stress?SeaSprayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07906503090688697222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-61375783834081396962007-05-11T11:00:00.000-07:002007-05-11T11:00:00.000-07:00That's a good blend - a perfectionist at work, and...That's a good blend - a perfectionist at work, and a loosey goosey at home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com