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Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes On When You Go Under | 4.94MB | HF-FS-DF
200 pages | Publisher: Ecw Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2010) | Language: English
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Whang introduces the basics of anesthesiology, its duties and areas of authority, and a “day in the operating room,” where surgeons, surgical assistants, nurses, and others in a “less-than-TV intensity” O.R. palaver about sports, the news, “and the latest O.R. gossip.” He also discusses “O.R. Voodoo”—some doctors’ specific, rigidly performed preparatory rituals for “warding off the bad luck lurking in the shadows”—and presents lists of items removed from rectums (fruits, vegetables, billiard balls—all “accidentally sat upon”) and penises (stereo wires, chains). He offers psychological profiles of specialties ranging from orthopedic to plastic surgeons, explanations of side effects from common anesthesia, a rundown of the predominantly cholesterol- and sodium-packed fare at the hospital cafeteria (French fries, battered fish, greasy sausages), and the suggestion that the decorative nutrition posters read, “What does not kill you will make you stronger. Bon appétit.” Fact-filled, poignant, and funny. --Whitney Scott
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