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[Winged Scapula]

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If anyone has Turner Classic Movies and is on MST or PST, I'm watching a cool 1938 film short about the history of anaethesia right now. Thought someone here might be interested in seeing it as well. Sort of funny.

 

[Planktonmd]

Winged Scapula actually still reads our forum!
Glad to see you 🙂

If anyone has Turner Classic Movies and is on MST or PST, I'm watching a cool 1938 film short about the history of anaethesia right now. Thought someone here might be interested in seeing it as well. Sort of funny.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Winged Scapula actually still reads our forum!
Glad to see you 🙂

Thanks. I sneak in from time to time. I've learned a lot about anesthesia from reading the posts here (and perhaps more than I want to know about some of ya'lls private lives 😛 ).

I find that knowing more about the concerns of anesthesiologists helps me be a better surgeon and to improve on an already good relationship with them.

Anyway, the film short (10 min) was quite unintentionally humorous/appalling (some racial stuff) given the mores of the time (1938) and intentionally humorous when it showed the first patient (whom I think was not actually the first patient to receive anesthesia, despite the claims) throwing a fit over the anesthesiologist's $2 bill.

Come to think of it, with Medicare cuts, that might be what you guys end up getting.😡

A cute little film that is worth looking for on TCM.

 

[checkov]

For those interested, the title of the film that 'Winged Scapula' referred to is "The Great Moment", produced in 1944.

All 4th-year med students who interview at the University of Illinois anesthesiology residency program are shoehorned into watching clips of this hammy classic during the interview day. I wouldn't recommend purchasing the film, but I did enjoy the obligatory 'Gentlemen, this is no humbug' scene.

Video trailer is at videodetective.

Detailed film info at wikipedia.

 

[Winged Scapula]

For those interested, the title of the film that 'Winged Scapula' referred to is "The Great Moment", produced in 1944.

All 4th-year med students who interview at the University of Illinois anesthesiology residency program are shoehorned into watching clips of this hammy classic during the interview day. I wouldn't recommend purchasing the film, but I did enjoy the obligatory 'Gentlemen, this is no humbug' scene.

Video trailer is at videodetective.

Detailed film info at wikipedia.

Nope, that wasn't it (although looks amusing).

I wasn't watching a film but a film *short* from 1938 entitled "Anaesthesia": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029869/