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Graduating anes resident. Worked with graduating urology resident on Friday. Cases going great. He's operating fast, I'm anesthetizing fast. We made a goal before the first case to immolate PP as much as we could. 10-15 minute turnovers for me, he and his attending never left the operating suite......until.....the damn circulating OR nurse stretched the turnovers in a deliberate and progressive fashion (God forbid we actually FINISH the work in a timely manner). The first turnover hit 45 minutes (academics, she's known to be obstructive...shrugged my shoulders, got something to drink). The second turnover hit 1 hour (me and the uro resident both say something to our respective attendings...you guessed it, nothing happened).
The third turnover hit 1h 45m. At this point i'm extremely frustrated. I confronted her about it in the OR: "We're still counting." Scrub tech told me that was total BS. I then found her in the OR staff lounge loudly discussing something about how her son knows some actor in Hollywood. I suggest to her firmly that we need to get the case done. "We're still counting. I'm waiting on more stuff from sterile processing." Remember, scrub tech had already told me this was BS and she was ready. Oh, and the nurse in question hasn't received report from the preop nurse yet....so because of all the questions she has to ask (and her willingness to do so efficiently /sarcasm/) this will add another 20-30m before I can get the patient. I go and say something to her nurse manager. "Oh that's just so-and-so." I start seeing red. I walk to the preop area and she's FINALLY there, but now she's BS-ing with the preop nurses about her other son who knows some rapper in atlanta. I start to lose it. I notice my voice is beginning to raise as I start into her about piss-poor patient care, etc etc.
I stop and realize I have 8 clinical days left of residency before moving for fellowship, take a deep breath and just go sit with the uro resident, who is equally as pissed off as I am, and just wait. After the case (finally) went and we got the patient safely in the PACU, I left and had a nice high gravity brew.
/vent
The third turnover hit 1h 45m. At this point i'm extremely frustrated. I confronted her about it in the OR: "We're still counting." Scrub tech told me that was total BS. I then found her in the OR staff lounge loudly discussing something about how her son knows some actor in Hollywood. I suggest to her firmly that we need to get the case done. "We're still counting. I'm waiting on more stuff from sterile processing." Remember, scrub tech had already told me this was BS and she was ready. Oh, and the nurse in question hasn't received report from the preop nurse yet....so because of all the questions she has to ask (and her willingness to do so efficiently /sarcasm/) this will add another 20-30m before I can get the patient. I go and say something to her nurse manager. "Oh that's just so-and-so." I start seeing red. I walk to the preop area and she's FINALLY there, but now she's BS-ing with the preop nurses about her other son who knows some rapper in atlanta. I start to lose it. I notice my voice is beginning to raise as I start into her about piss-poor patient care, etc etc.
I stop and realize I have 8 clinical days left of residency before moving for fellowship, take a deep breath and just go sit with the uro resident, who is equally as pissed off as I am, and just wait. After the case (finally) went and we got the patient safely in the PACU, I left and had a nice high gravity brew.
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