Some people are just grouches. Or maybe it's the institution lol!
I've worked with an eye surgeon for 20 years and we luckily
have a great OR staff at the institution he does his cases.
He loves surgery at our home institution, it's a great team.
So we're lucky. Actually, we are lucky all around,
great med school, great residents, nurses, etc
(well, administration you can get rid of). Patients always
ask if I will be in the OR with him and I always tell them
"nope, Im not needed, we have a great team at the hospital".
But....there's always a few cranks...many years ago
when I was a young RN working on my surgical floor
I got a cranky phone call from the OR lol. My preop
patient i had sent up for some eye procedure didnt have
his consent signed. Well, our eye attendings got their own
consents, the ophtho residents did not do that so the
consent was usually in the preop paperwork. This one
attending who was just a great guy, would never have
his consent with the preop paper work, he always brought
it to the OR with him in the am, that was his routine. So of
course, the patient was in the holding area, waiting for his
surgeon and his consent lol. I tell the cranky OR person
(not sure who/what it was lol), "Dr. Eyeguy" either has it
as per his usual or he can get it before he scrubs in,
whatever..." So she says to me "well that is unacceptable,
the patient has received preoperative medications and
cannot sign an informed consent" I said "uh what preoperative medications? he received dilation and antibiotic drops to
one eye, there is no preop sedation, what are you talking
about?" so she says "well those are preop medications, and
he is now dilated and cannot see so he can no longer sign
an informed consent" I said to her "Uh...okay...now how do
our blind patients (which we had many of) sign their consents?"
They are unable to see and are fully able to sign. And besides,
he has ANOTHER eye!!." She just hung up the phone on me, muwhahahaaaaaaa...