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...scrub nurse, of course. A surgical tech may be there too, suctioning up those queasy fluids, holding the arm or leg we're working on, cutting sutures and holding retractors. But you have seen enough medical shows to know there's also always at least one other doctor present. We may not engage in the same kind of dramatic medical banter that fictional surgeons do (like flying a passenger jet, safe surgery should be a little bit boring), but that second doctor - the assistant surgeon - should be in the operating room for all major procedures...
...cases. Many programs have resorted to hiring physician assistants (PAs) - they're like surgical residents who never graduate - to provide support when no residents are available to cover the cases. PAs can be a truly great help, but they don't have the mind-set of a doctor who stands - or will soon stand - in the lead position. When there's trouble, that mind-set is invaluable. And in surgery, sometimes there is trouble. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...else fails, you just have to operate without another doctor. This is especially true for middle-of-the-night and weekend emergencies. Common sense and unfortunate anecdotes tell us it is unquestionably less safe for the person on the table to have only one doctor present. But, not surprisingly, no surgeon, hospital, insurance company or government agency has wanted to come up with a hard statistic on how much less safe it actually is. It is clearly against all of their interests to show that assistants are needed. And it's not something I've seen brought...
Whether Samuels was suffering from measles or the chicken pox, Epstein was always gentle and reassuring. “It was a very romanticized version of what a doctor was supposed to be,” says Samuels...
...described his experiences as a peace activist, a doctor in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and a father who has lost three of his daughters to Israeli tank shells that shattered his home in Gaza in January...