Normal practice or unsafe practice?

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I agree with you, I've never heard of a case like this, but everyone seems to be focused on if going to the bathroom is more "defensible" than going to the pyxis. My argument is that the reason does not matter, you left the OR, a malpractice lawyer will eat you alive if something did happen.

It is less defensible than pyxis for sure...

But the idea that a case is going well, and then suddenly during the 30 seconds that you were gone... something goes wrong (not sure what that realistically could be)...

AND it somehow gets blamed on you (when it's far more likely to be surgical)..

AND the case goes to malpractice (most docs only experience that 1-3 times in a career)

AND they somehow manage to blame the complication on your 30 second absence (would be a big stretch in terms of pathophysiology)

Thats a very very very low probability in reality