What you would not want to hear just before going under for Surgery?

A few years back my daughter had a unique surgery at a teaching hospital

when we checked in were put in pre-op.
this person is full on cycling gear and helmet popped in room said are "we ready where is the chart"...told him i am patients mom not nurse and who was he? he mumbled something then he marked the area of surgery as they do ... left

soon a very professional guy comes in checked where was marked.
HE told me as this was special surgery........... the third year residents had a contest to who could scrub in and bike boy won....
but it was obvious the second guy thought other was an idiot.

Only the assistant ..........but if the lead doctor was not chief of surgery ........i would have reconsidered
 
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gamboolman said:
About 3 years ago I was laying on the Table at the Doctors office for a Day Surgery/Procedure - waiting to have a Prostate Needle Biopsy done. ms gamboolgal was with me.

This was first time for Needle Biopsy - so I was abit scared.

I'm laying there thinking calm thoughts, deep breathing, etc.

In the room right next to us - there is very loud noise like something fell and hit the floor hard - and a man started out with a very low guttural moan that built into a blood curdling scream !
Then I heard thru the walls a Nurse say - "It's OK to Scream"

Being calm and collected left the building for me at that point - ha !

I will say that the Needle Biopsy was not bad and I would advise any man needing one to get it done.

And the results came back negative.
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That scream you heard was the nurse pulling the catheter out from some guy's urethra post surgery.
Don't ask me how I know.
 
Jeni said:
A few years back my daughter had a unique surgery at a teaching hospital

when we checked in were put in pre-op.
this person is full on cycling gear and helmet popped in room said are we ready where is the chart...told him i am patients mom not nurse and who was he? he mumbled something then he marked the area of surgery as they do ... left

soon a very professional guy comes in checked where was marked.
HE told me as this was special surgery........... the third year residents had a contest to who could scrub in and bike boy won....
but it was obvious the second guy thought other was an idiot.

Only the assistant ..........but if the lead doctor was not chief of surgery ........i would have reconsidered
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Since where I lived, patients did not have to undergo treatment by residents, but no one told them that. When I had surgery, the consent form included my handwritten command: No residents or medical students may actively participate in my surgery. IOW, they could watch and learn, but not learn on me.

My son had an operation and on the consent form, the medical staff had put the wrong organ down. My husband signed it without reading it or without knowing which organ it was. Luckily, I read it to make sure it was correct and they made the change just in time.
 
WheatenLover said:
Since where I lived, patients did not have to undergo treatment by residents, but no one told them that. When I had surgery, the consent form included my handwritten command: No residents or medical students may actively participate in my surgery. IOW, they could watch and learn, but not learn on me.

My son had an operation and on the consent form, the medical staff had put the wrong organ down. My husband signed it without reading it or without knowing which organ it was. Luckily, I read it to make sure it was correct and they made the change just in time.
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I think people could request that but as this was a big teaching moment had double OR so they had big gallery over head and one OR was a whole biology class doing studies as this was a very very rare tumor.
I had to sign many papers to allow the studies / observers etc drawing the line at a resident who did not come off as professional seemed silly.


It is very important to read and reread in any paperwork as as you saw hospitals make errors too
 
"Sweet baby Jesus, who does she think she is, having me served divorce papers here at the hospital!"
"Well she'd better not be home when I get through with this, what are we doing here? Oh yeah, this
liver transplant." "Man, that really grinds my gears that she'd stoop that low!" "Let's get this show on
the road. I have other matters to attend to today." "Grrrr!"
 
oldpeculier said:
That scream you heard was the nurse pulling the catheter out from some guy's urethra post surgery.
Don't ask me how I know.
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I've had many catheters removed after surgery. I've never had one hurt enough to scream. Just felt funny. The nurse said there is two small tubes up the side of the catheter. One is to blow up the balloon that holds it in place in the bladder. The other is for me to push this numbing/lubricating medicine in so when I pull this catheter out it won't hurt. It might burn a little the first time you pee.

She would not let me leave till I peed a little in the commode just to make sure I could before I left the hospital or Dr's office.
 
Tom 86 said:
I've had many catheters removed after surgery. I've never had one hurt enough to scream. Just felt funny. The nurse said there is two small tubes up the side of the catheter. One is to blow up the balloon that holds it in place in the bladder. The other is for me to push this numbing/lubricating medicine in so when I pull this catheter out it won't hurt. It might burn a little the first time you pee.

She would not let me leave till I peed a little in the commode just to make sure I could before I left the hospital or Dr's office.
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I had a cat removed about a week after a radical prostatectomy. I didn't scream myself either, but it didn't feel real good. Was real happy to get it out and get rid of the bag.

The cat in me didn't have any kind of secondary numbing tube to my knowledge.
 
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When I was being prepped for the removal of ovarian cancer, the nurse asked me if I had any fears? I said I feared going in the operating room and a different doctor doing the surgery than my own doctor.

I was laid out in a cold room and he was nowhere around when they gave me the shot to put me to sleep. All of a sudden my doctors face was close to mine and he quietly said in my ear , "I'm here and I'm going to make sure you're okay".

I opened my eyes for a sec to see if it was him and then was out. When I woke up the nurse asked me if I remembered my doctor being there and I poured out my gratitude. They were all so sweet there.
 
I had a nightmare once that I was in a hospital room waiting for the surgeon to come in.
He walked in with bare feet and wearing rubber Flip Flops...a clear sign he wasn't professional ā˜ŗļø
But in the dream it was seriously disconcerting.
 
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