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The field of surgery has changed so much in the past ten to twenty years. Forget the money, problems with reimbursement, malpractice, doing more work for less pay. What frustrates me the most is the lack of respect for the surgeon or at the least for the job of the surgeon.
I was doing a difficult case last week and I needed help from the scrub nurse, circulating nurse and anesthesiologist; and they simply did not care. They were there for their shift work and I was demanding too much of them to do their job. What's even worse is if I yelled or complained, they would write me up and I would have to get sensitivity classes and my privilege maybe suspended.
Theyre stacking everything against us.
I'm curious, what could the anesthesiologist have done to help you that he or she would not volunteer to do? I always try to help my surgical colleagues (however I can) when things are not going so well across the drapes. Just as I would expect them to do the same for me.