[Leica] surgery

[kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier)]

On Jan 4, 2006, at 6:45 PM, leo wrote:

> Any words of advice for my first shoot in the OR?

Leo, I'll echo Ted's rule #1....don't touch anything!   Years ago, in  
another incarnation, I worked as Director of Materials Management for  
a large medical center in Alabama,  Part of my job was responsibility  
for purchasing all supplies and equipment, including all OR gear....  
instruments, linens (we used real cloth drapes and packs), gloves,  
etc.  One day, one of the scrub nurses came rushing down the hall to  
my office, burst in and said, with a dire look on her face, "Dr. So- 
and-so wants you, stat, in the OR."  I went, stat, got to the OR, and  
heard him yelling outside the OR suite:  "&*))((#@$@!" in a deep  
South Alabama accent.  I got to the door pushed it open and stuck my  
head in, ungowned and ungloved.  He yelled at me to get my ____ in  
there, and I told him couldn't come in, I hadn't scrubbed and  
gowned.  He started yelling louder that if I didn't get my ____ in  
there, he was going to see to it that I got fired.  I went in just  
inside the door.  He told me he meant over to where he was, by the  
operating table, with the patient lying there, opened up.  So, I did,  
and he took off his gloves, standing over the patient, threw them at  
me and told me to look at his hands.  He was allergic to latex and  
the nurses had set up the wrong pack for him, and he had broken out  
all the way up to his elbows.  The nurses were aghast and tried to  
cover the field with clean sheets.  I beat a swift retreat, and still  
never touched anything!  The gloves he threw at me I left lying on  
the floor.

Rule:  NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING, even if you're being yelled at.  :-)

Peace, and enjoy the experience.

Ken
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