I thought plastic surgery was surgery based around literally plastic materials

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I was talking to a plastic surgeon about being premed in 2020/COVID.

My d**bass thought plastic surgery was called "plastics" because the surgery was based around literal plastic materials, and never bothered to take 5 seconds to look it up.

Turns out its called "plastic surgery" as in RE-SCULPTING/MODELING, NOT PUTTING TUPPERWARE IN PEOPLE.

Needless to say the surgeon laughed at me and poked fun at me for the rest of the conversation. "Don't forget to shadow a radiologist as well! I hear they have excellent FM stations."

So that's been my embarrassing "shadowing" in the COVID era so far. How's yours going?

 

[Lucca]

hey sometimes they do use literal plastics. I saw a plastic surgeon in a peds case use a bio-absorable plastic in a child's facial reconstruction following trauma. Plastic scaffolding and plastic "screws" for a child's growing body instead of the titanium that may have been used in an adult.

 

[aSagacious]

For what it's worth, radiologists do use FM stations all the time. MRIs literally use radio frequency waves to generate images. 😉

 

[deleted1000960]

Makes me wonder how accurate this meme is:

 

[Doc_Ock]

I'm going into radiology. The remarks/digs here are 100/100.