Ortho=carpentry?

[Cheisu]

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Well, sorry for being the apparently ignorant future cardiothoracic surgeon that I am, but do ortho people really listen to music in the OR?

And is it really like carpentry, just except wood=bones?

 

[Pilot Doc]

Yes, they listen to music like many CT surgeons.

Ortho is just like being a carpenter. And CT is just like being a plumber.

 

[GoodMonkey]

you were asking about ACT vs SAT in one of the surgery forums. you are still in high school? just $0.02, but i'd keep the surgical subspecialty name-calling to a minimum until you at least get to med school.

just a thought.

 

[Ephesus]

I don't know many surgeons who don't have their iPod playing during an operation. If the pt is liked and the CRNA is still reading his paper and hasn't put the pt out, the pt typically will pick a song and a tech will set it up and then the CRNA does his thing and goes back to the paper.

 

[Carpenter]

Yes, they listen to music like many CT surgeons.

Ortho is just like being a carpenter. And CT is just like being a plumber.

LOL..can't put it better myself.

 

[ddmo]

Ortho = surgeon + engineer + 3D puzzle solver + mechanic + metallurgist + comic + ultimate badass and much more all rolled into one.

While there is certainly a skill to performing microvascular anstamoses like you see in your beloved CT surgery, there is plenty of microsurgery to go around in ortho. I don't think you have had enough exposure on Grey's Anatomy to appreciate the skill it takes to place screws within millimeters of the spinal cord or the talent it takes to not only understand a comminuted (pulverized) pelvic fracture in 3 dimensions based on 2 dimension xrays, but to then repair that fracture.

 

[pagemmapants]

Try getting a carpenter to perform a vascularized free fibular graft:

http://www.dukehealth.org/HealthLibrary/CareGuides/Orthopaedics/patientresources/fvfg

Or an index finger pollicization:

http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho...inger_for_reconstruction_of_the_congenitally_

And, as hinted elsewhere, it's a rare surgeon who maintains absolute silence and does *not* listen to music in his O.R. Simply because you saw Callie drilling into a knee with heavy metal blasting 3 episodes ago doesn't mean that only orthopaedic surgeons listen to music, or that it's even a bad idea. One of the txplant surgeons here listens to jazz whereas the plastic surgery department prefers classic rock; incidentally two of the orthopaedic surgeries I've scrubbed in on had classical music as the soundtrack and the only place I've heard anything that approached heavy metal was in a liver resection.

As a sidenote, there are plenty of articles out there that have shown an increase in productivity and efficiency with music playing in the business field; why would the OR be any different?

Stereotypes are dangerous.

 

[Tired]

Ortho is really unique as far as surgery goes. There is a lot of overlap between the Gen Surg subspecialties (colorectal, CT, vascular, endocrine, plastics), and even in the other subspecialties (Ob/gyn, urology). How many of these folks do you see dabbling in Ortho? Yes, neurosurg does spine and peripheral nerve stuff, and there are a handful of general surgeons in rural areas who will take a crack at pinning hips now and then, but other than that, our surgeries are done by us.

Is it "just like carpentry"? Maybe, but only if you're the kind of person who uses childish metaphors to describe concepts that are far in excess of your intellectual capabilities.

 

[smq123]

And, as hinted elsewhere, it's a rare surgeon who maintains absolute silence and does *not* listen to music in his O.R. Simply because you saw Callie drilling into a knee with heavy metal blasting 3 episodes ago doesn't mean that only orthopaedic surgeons listen to music, or that it's even a bad idea. One of the txplant surgeons here listens to jazz whereas the plastic surgery department prefers classic rock; incidentally two of the orthopaedic surgeries I've scrubbed in on had classical music as the soundtrack and the only place I've heard anything that approached heavy metal was in a liver resection.

As a sidenote, there are plenty of articles out there that have shown an increase in productivity and efficiency with music playing in the business field; why would the OR be any different?

I get antsy when people don't play music in the OR. Especially in plastics cases, which have very, very long skin closures.

 

[pagemmapants]

I totally agree smq. Those 4-0 or smaller biosyn subcutes on long-ass incisions are a PITA. 😉

 

[Ashers]

I get antsy when people don't play music in the OR. Especially in plastics cases, which have very, very long skin closures.

My ortho attending wouldn't allow music in the OR, so the residents would sing.

We also just had to do a plastics-like closure after an iliac crest fracture because the patient was an exotic dancer. She also requested we cut around her tattoos on her butt.

 

[smq123]

My ortho attending wouldn't allow music in the OR, so the residents would sing.

We also just had to do a plastics-like closure after an iliac crest fracture because the patient was an exotic dancer. She also requested we cut around her tattoos on her butt.

That's great.

Was the iliac crest fracture a job-related injury? Because that would have made for a memorable night for the clientele.

 

[ddmo]

Pole dancing is the new extreme sport.

 

[Ashers]

That's great.

Was the iliac crest fracture a job-related injury? Because that would have made for a memorable night for the clientele.

Nah, the injury was due to a car accident. She was the sort of girl that proves that guys don't go to these places to look at girls' faces. Or so the discussion went while we were getting her up on the table (after she was sedated).

 

[VoiceofReason]

more like Ortho = Ballin'

 

[basupran]

 

[Carpenter]

sounds like two immigrant Chinese or Koreans talking to me..

Fellow hypocrites can kick my corpse and spit on it for being racist now