Me as well
Ditto. I don't know why but it just feels right to me. It helps me stand out too since no one else does.
Ya got me - I was furiously trying to locate that article!
All docs should know how to tie a bow tie
Pts prefer the white coat? That's one thing i lost years ago unless at the hospital on the floors
The boomers i know, some in rad onc, wear the old school dumpy scrubs. Looks bad imo. I guess it all depends on where you practice
What is it with rad oncs and bowties. I know a few of them just love 'em, including some prominent onesAll docs should know how to tie a bow tie
Neurologists do love diagnosing things. Usually, things they can do nothing about.
This is my only prejudice in life. If you’re under the age of 70 and wear a bow tie…then you’re a d-bag until proven otherwise. I actually turned down a good job because a partner my age wore them on a regular basis. It said all I needed to know about what it would be like to work with him on a daily basis.
Then you will hate me.
Perhaps doxxing myself. Dr Sabiston was a visiting professor when I was a medical student. He allowed an "audience" for students and trainees in a conference room. He requested that a platform be used and a special chair (throne) would sit atop this platform and the attendees were to be seated several feet below him. No scrubs allowed. All trainees in white pants and white coats with ties. On rounds all surgical appliances (g-tubes, etc) were to be covered with white sheets. Students were instructed to not speak unless called upon. Different era to be sure.
David Coston Sabiston was a distinguished American surgeon. As chairman of the department of surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, he was, reputedly, one of the greatest surgeons who ever lived. In 1962, he grafted a vein from a patient's leg to feed blood past a blocked coronary artery, the very first coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and promptly became known as a moderniser of cardiac surgery. He was president of virtually all the principal surgical societies in the United States, including the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery…the list goes on. At the same time, he was kind and generous, a family man revered by his children, grandchildren and colleagues. Yet, to his surgical residents-in-training, he always remained an incredibly tough taskmaster, who would continuously strike fear in their hearts. Love, hate, productivity and camaraderie were the ingredients for his recipe for nurturing young surgical leaders in his training environment at Duke University...
Sabiston's premier surgical training programme preserved the Halsted/Blalock/Hopkins tradition and became known, to the rest of the world, as 'The Decade with Dave'. Some of that label was myth, which the residents loved to perpetuate. Most residents spent only eight years in the programme, including two years of basic science research. Although most rotations were every-other-night call, the residents looked out for each other and were allowed three full days off every other week. The residents referred to Sabiston as 'The Man' or 'TM' for short. A 'positive TM sign' meant Sabiston's Cadillac was in his parking space and everyone had to be on their toes. TM had a passion for detail, cleanliness and formality. Anyone found in scrub clothes outside of the operating room suites flirted with expulsion. Once, the chief resident, who had invented the world's first artificial heart, was sent home to change out of his casual trousers.
...TheWallnerus also notes he was fond of EtOH
It’s big in the south. I don’t hold it against people, just a different culture.
David Coston Sabiston was a distinguished American surgeon. As chairman of the department of surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, he was, reputedly, one of the greatest surgeons who ever lived. In 1962, he grafted a vein from a patient's leg to feed blood past a blocked coronary artery, the very first coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and promptly became known as a moderniser of cardiac surgery. He was president of virtually all the principal surgical societies in the United States, including the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery…the list goes on. At the same time, he was kind and generous, a family man revered by his children, grandchildren and colleagues. Yet, to his surgical residents-in-training, he always remained an incredibly tough taskmaster, who would continuously strike fear in their hearts. Love, hate, productivity and camaraderie were the ingredients for his recipe for nurturing young surgical leaders in his training environment at Duke University...
Sabiston's premier surgical training programme preserved the Halsted/Blalock/Hopkins tradition and became known, to the rest of the world, as 'The Decade with Dave'. Some of that label was myth, which the residents loved to perpetuate. Most residents spent only eight years in the programme, including two years of basic science research. Although most rotations were every-other-night call, the residents looked out for each other and were allowed three full days off every other week. The residents referred to Sabiston as 'The Man' or 'TM' for short. A 'positive TM sign' meant Sabiston's Cadillac was in his parking space and everyone had to be on their toes. TM had a passion for detail, cleanliness and formality. Anyone found in scrub clothes outside of the operating room suites flirted with expulsion. Once, the chief resident, who had invented the world's first artificial heart, was sent home to change out of his casual trousers.
...TheWallnerus also notes he was fond of EtOH
My dude looks like he's about to pop open the Ark and have his face melted off or something.
David Coston Sabiston was a distinguished American surgeon. As chairman of the department of surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, he was, reputedly, one of the greatest surgeons who ever lived. In 1962, he grafted a vein from a patient's leg to feed blood past a blocked coronary artery, the very first coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and promptly became known as a moderniser of cardiac surgery. He was president of virtually all the principal surgical societies in the United States, including the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery…the list goes on. At the same time, he was kind and generous, a family man revered by his children, grandchildren and colleagues. Yet, to his surgical residents-in-training, he always remained an incredibly tough taskmaster, who would continuously strike fear in their hearts. Love, hate, productivity and camaraderie were the ingredients for his recipe for nurturing young surgical leaders in his training environment at Duke University...
Sabiston's premier surgical training programme preserved the Halsted/Blalock/Hopkins tradition and became known, to the rest of the world, as 'The Decade with Dave'. Some of that label was myth, which the residents loved to perpetuate. Most residents spent only eight years in the programme, including two years of basic science research. Although most rotations were every-other-night call, the residents looked out for each other and were allowed three full days off every other week. The residents referred to Sabiston as 'The Man' or 'TM' for short. A 'positive TM sign' meant Sabiston's Cadillac was in his parking space and everyone had to be on their toes. TM had a passion for detail, cleanliness and formality. Anyone found in scrub clothes outside of the operating room suites flirted with expulsion. Once, the chief resident, who had invented the world's first artificial heart, was sent home to change out of his casual trousers.
...TheWallnerus also notes he was fond of EtOH
Now we know why sometimes the phrase "with surgical precision" is associated with serial killers
