General Surgeons bailing Ob/Gyns out...IN THE PELVIS?

[Leukocyte]

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I personally never seen an OB/GYN call a General Surgeon to bail him/her out,

but I keep hearing people making fun of OB/GYNs because they "often scew up in the OR and need real surgeons to fix their screw up"!!!

Do Ob/Gyns really do that? I mean, I can imagine how it can be funny since the OB/GYNs are supposed to be THE specialists in female pelvic surgery. 🙄

 

[doc05]

it happens all the time. I'm surprised you've never seen it happen.

 

[neilc]

happens all the time? well, i have seen it exactly once. a doc i was with removed some mesentary with some suspicious lesion on it, compromised small bowel blood supply and called in the GS to do a small bowel resection..but, that is not even in the pelvis...

in the pelvis, the docs i have worked with seem to do a great job. "all the time" is a relative term. it happens, sure. but, it happens in all specialties, people always need help or consults. the surgeons are just conviced that they are the only people qualified to wield a scalpel, and make all sorts of snide comments...but, these complications are rare, and the exception, rather than the rule.

 

[njbmd]

I personally never seen an OB/GYN call a General Surgeon to bail him/her out,

but I keep hearing people making fun of OB/GYNs because they "often scew up in the OR and need real surgeons to fix their screw up"!!!

Do Ob/Gyns really do that? I mean, I can imagine how it can be funny since the OB/GYNs are supposed to be THE specialists in female pelvic surgery. 🙄

Hi there,
Most GYNs do not like operating on bowel and readily call in a General Surgeon to help out with a case. It is not a matter of "bailing out" the GYN but of doing the best operation for the patient. When I am doing a colon resection and find something that affects the uterus, I will often have Gynecologist have a look. It is really not that big of a deal.
njbmd 🙂

 

[Pikevillemedstudent]

I have seen it happen a few times myself. OB/GYN accidentally perforating bowel on routine hysterectomy x 2 or huge perforation of urinary bladder on scheduled C-section. They had to call urology on that one. That doesn't mean they are bad surgeons. They called the right people to come help them. They knew their limits. Everyone needs to know their limitations and fortunately Ob's don't pretend they are experts of anything other than pelvis.