The Intern Whipple

[bobbyseal]

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Has anyone ever heard of the intern whipple?

The prelim where I'm doing my surgery clerkship was joking about it the other day, saying it consists of a port-o-cath placement, j-tube placement, and a couple other things.

What other procedures do interns get to do which may be considered part of the intern whipple? And when I say get to do, I don't mean just running a couple sutures and bovie'ing.

 

[Foxxy Cleopatra]

Ha- mine would be circumcisions!! I did a ton while on peds; my handywork will be all over the downtown scene here in about 20 years!

Tracheostomies would be my #2, followed by umbilical hernias, inguinal hernias, open appys, and the real signature procedure, rigid proctoscopy!

 

[neutropeniaboy]

Originally posted by Foxxy Cleopatra

Tracheostomies would be my #2, followed by umbilical hernias, inguinal hernias, open appys, and the real signature procedure, rigid proctoscopy!

Tracheotomies. Tracheotomies. Unless you mature a stoma, it's not a tracheostomy.

 

[ortho2003]

Tool. Tool. Unless you are an anal tool, 99.9% of the medical world knows what is meant when someone says they are doing a tracheostomy and could care less if they mature the stoma or not.

 

[dry dre]

Originally posted by ortho2003
Tool. Tool.

Too funny.

 

[UI2003]

- lap chole
- gastric bypass
- craniotomy
...1st assist rox mah fro....

 

[Foxxy Cleopatra]

Tracheost... tracheotomy; optho... ophthalmology, learn something new every day.

Originally posted by ortho2003
Tool. Tool. Unless you are an anal tool...

Now that's just awesome 😉

I love locker room humor.

 

[edmadison]

Don't forget butt surgery. Love those roids.

Ed

 

[LaCirujana]

Originally posted by edmadison
Don't forget butt surgery. Love those roids.

Ed

Oh, yeah! Intern year is ALL about the butt. I did the full butt surgery fellowship: butt pus, 'roids, fistulotomy, a$$ warts, sphincterotomy, and more EUAs than I care to remember. We even have a "patented" butt taping procedure at my institution, named after one of the old-school attendings (really spreads the cheeks for good exposure ).

 

[maxheadroom]

On the plastics service . . .

lip lac, lip lac, extensor tendon repair, brow lac, flexor tendon repair (love that MGH stitch), basal cell on the nose . . .

 

[dr.evil]

Tracheotomies. Tracheotomies. Unless you mature a stoma, it's not a tracheostomy

Tracheostomy is an operative procedure that creates a surgical airway in the cervical trachea. The traditional semantic difference between "-ostomy" and "-otomy" is blurred in this instance because the hole is variably permanent. If a cannula is in place, an unsutured opening heals into a patent stoma within a week. If decannulation is performed (ie, the tracheostomy cannula is removed), the hole closes in a similar amount of time. The cut edges of the tracheal opening can be sutured to the skin with a few absorbable sutures to facilitate cannulation and, if necessary, recannulation; alternatively, a permanent stoma can be created with circumferential sutures. The term tracheostomy is used, by convention, for all these procedures. It is considered synonymous with tracheotomy.

Man, I hate when people do that.

 

[neutropeniaboy]

Originally posted by dr.evil

Man, I hate when people do that.

You're right. I'm sorry.

I forgot; these forums usually have nothing to do with semantics, debates, disagreements, or people trying to convince others of what is correct and what is not correct.

Additionally, I must say that if you're going to use emedicine.com as your source for your medical knowledge, try not to make the cut-and-paste job so obvious.

🙄

 

[dr.evil]

You're right. I should not have used emedicine as a source for my reply. Instead, I should simply make things up and belittle others for no gain. What was I thinking?