How do you like to keep yourself occupied during long, stable cases?

[sadgeboi]

Just curious what everyone likes to do during long, stable cases.

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[coffeebythelake]

Just curious what everyone likes to do during long, stable cases.

Pokemon
Gotta catch em all

 

[coffeebythelake]

Honestly, reading usually something medical

 

[Dr. Rude]

Porn on my phone.

 

[ethilo]

CME if I'm a good boy

 

[DirtDocMD]

News on the phone..

During better economic times, I’d run compound interest calculations, at different rates of return, on my investments.

Etc.

 

[Dr. Rude]

News on the phone..

During better economic times, I’d run compound interest calculations, at different rates of return, on my investments.

Etc.

You could do compounding with negative real returns.

 

[BobLoblaw78]

Ask about other cases each time one finishes and make offhand comments like, "wow, he really knocked that one out fast. He is the best surgeon ever!"

Or read an anesthesia book. Keeps me up to date so I don't have to ever read at home. And it is really good optics. I promise you that the whole room knows what each anesthesiologist does during these cases.

 

[Urzuz]

Porn on my phone.

So that’ll keep you occupied for 45 seconds. Then what?

 

[BobLoblaw78]

So that’ll keep you occupied for 45 seconds. Then what?

Lol. I used to look at porn on the internet but I finished it.

 

[dabears505]

Lol. I used to look at porn on the internet but I finished it.

You finished it? There's tons of new content daily. How did you get through it all?

 

[BobLoblaw78]

You finished it? There's tons of new content daily. How did you get through it all?

Hot tub time machine. Went to the future. Short version, you guys are unnecessarily worrying about your retirement.

 

[Onefellswoop87]

Hot tub time machine. Went to the future. Short version, you guys are unnecessarily worrying about your retirement.

Unnecessarily worrying cause they’ll switch career fields and break into the porn industry?
Or the stock market will improve?
Both?

 

[BobLoblaw78]

Neither. Let's just say the preppers were right. And many of you are going to be disappointed that porn went digital

 

[Drwine]

Glad to see this post. Airline pilots figured out crew resource management 50 years ago and appropriate times to maintain a sterile cockpit. I suggest to residents that they find the Airbus pilot manual online and read the portion on times for maintaining a sterile cockpit. During induction and emergence it is inappropriate to be engaged in anything else and we need to communicate any anticipated difficulties with either so the surgeons and nurses can help us if necessary. When we are cruising on autopilot it is appropriate to read while being situationally aware.

 

[secretasianman]

Do the airline pilots look at porn or student pilot network posts on the internet?

Glad to see this post. Airline pilots figured out crew resource management 50 years ago and appropriate times to maintain a sterile cockpit. I suggest to residents that they find the Airbus pilot manual online and read the portion on times for maintaining a sterile cockpit. During induction and emergence it is inappropriate to be engaged in anything else and we need to communicate any anticipated difficulties with either so the surgeons and nurses can help us if necessary. When we are cruising on autopilot it is appropriate to read while being situationally aware.

 

[Status Sciaticus]

Do the airline pilots look at porn or student pilot network posts on the internet?

 

[DrOwnage]

Porn on my phone.

Legends say before I got to my current gig, there was an anesthesiologist that could name everyone's porn Doppleganger. Apparently he was pretty accurate. He was like a porn historian. He eventually got fired for sexually harassing someone.

 

[nimbus]

Legends say before I got to my current gig, there was an anesthesiologist that could name everyone's porn Doppleganger. Apparently he was pretty accurate. He was like a porn historian. He eventually got fired for sexually harassing someone.

Now they probably want him back

 

[Dr. Rude]

Legends say before I got to my current gig, there was an anesthesiologist that could name everyone's porn Doppleganger. Apparently he was pretty accurate. He was like a porn historian. He eventually got fired for sexually harassing someone.

THREAD HIJACK


Everyone has a pornstar moniker.

First name: The name of your first pet that is the same gender as you.

Last name: The Street that you grew up on.

Mine: Otis Hampton

 

[MirrorTodd]

Read mostly. Sometimes SDN, sometimes uptodate, sometimes reddit. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the gme ticker.

 

[DrMDAware]

My favorite was a colleague who used to jack the chair way up so her face was above the drapes and just watch the entire surgery. Everyone thought she stood for hours. Little did they know…

 

[turnupthegas]

That is hilarious. The chair umpire at a tennis match.

 

[woopedazz]

If the case is stable and boring, just make it unstable and interesting. Pull out the lines, bolus random drugs, see how long you can keep your eyes closed while disassembling/reassembling the anaesthesia machine, yell random things like "fire!!! FIRE!!!"
Heaps of ways to have fun.

Edit: 'quietly' explain the surgical procedure to a nurse/student, but purposefully get everything sightly wrong and see how long the surgeon can ignore you.