THE LIGHTER SIDE OF HEART SURGERY
(Thanks to Allen at Division)
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June 30, 2009
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Tissue? I don't even know you.
Posted by: Braniff | June 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM
♫ Don't go breakin' my heart... ♪
Posted by: Allen at Division | June 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I thought this happened in San Francisco.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Save the liver!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM
I love you with all my tissue.
Posted by: Olo Baggins of Bywater | June 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM
I tissue you.
Posted by: Siouxie | June 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I'm just glad my doctor didn't do this during my colonoscopy, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM
I live in Colorado Springs, and we have two big hospitals, including Memorial. I think, should I have the need and choice, I will use the other one.
Posted by: ShadowKatmandu | June 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
You gotta throw heart...
When your nurse won't play her part!
If she won't treat you like a king
That's when the fling should start!
Posted by: Ford79 | June 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Sounds like something a surgeon would do. I worked with a surgeon once that threw a uterus on the floor but he didn't actually throw it at anybody. I'm not sure who picked it up because I fainted. I DO NOT do O.R. I prefer the E.R.
Posted by: nursecindy | June 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM
is there a 'five-second' rule for uteruses?
Posted by: insomniac | June 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM
and *snork* at ford!
Posted by: insomniac | June 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
So surgeon and heart surgery are sponsored by Bing, but hospital is not?
Posted by: oneblankspace | June 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
They just didn't have the heart to fire him.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
So that's what Janis was howling about...?
Posted by: Clankazoid | June 30, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Hey, I was using that uterus!
Posted by: Octomom | June 30, 2009 at 12:04 PM
She said, "Hey, cut that out." And so he did.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | June 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM
A former girlfriend used to be a nurse in that hospital. I'm betting that today she's glad she isn't anymore.
(Psst, ShadowKatmandu -- good call, definitely go with Penrose.)
Posted by: WriterDude | June 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Which, WriterDude?
;)
Posted by: CJrun | June 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Some people just have really bad senses of humor. I'm sure some people think I'm talking about the doctor and some people think it's the nurse.
Posted by: Margaritaville | June 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
If you can't stand the heart, get out of the kitchen.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Was Janis Joplin behind one of those facemasks?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | June 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM
I'm telling!
Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe | June 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM
You broke the unwritten code, Sonja, you ratted on your friends. When you do that Sonja, your enemies don't respect you. You got no friends no more. You got nobody, Sonja.
Posted by: MOTW | June 30, 2009 at 01:31 PM
cj: Both, I assure you. So would she.
Posted by: WriterDude | June 30, 2009 at 01:53 PM
as always tell my patients, we only act crazy because we are.
Posted by: Jazzzz | June 30, 2009 at 02:16 PM
food fight?
Posted by: crossgirl | June 30, 2009 at 02:49 PM
Sometimes doctors and nurses have bizarre senses of humor and find things funny that others wouldn't. You have to do this to keep from letting the bad stuff keep you awake at night. Or worse let it drive you crazy.
M'ville, this was probably a new nurse who hadn't learned this yet although I'm not saying what he did was right.
Posted by: nursecindy | June 30, 2009 at 04:29 PM
Don't go throwin' my heart....
Okay, true story. My ob-gyn did a Frisbee throw with placenta once. I find this hysterical. The dad in question did as well, in hindsight. At the moment, he fainted.
We make far too much out of not much.
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | July 01, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Clarification, I am in no way related to any of the above.
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | July 01, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Heart surgery is very critical operation.
Posted by: Wrong Diagnosis | November 13, 2010 at 06:58 AM
I don't think there is a lighter side on this. Heart procedures are of life and death. It is a very delicate procedure that leaves all in anxiety.
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