tags: general surgery
2003
February
- 2003 Feb 19
- The Edge
More than anything else, this is what I’ll never feel again.
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2006
November
- 2006 Nov 25
- war and surgery (a metaphor revisited)
The problem with health care professional talking about the Iraq War is that we always seem to find ourselves with mixed metaphors.
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2016
July
- 2016 Jul 5
- The Stench of Cutting People Open
To me, the smell of a Bovie searing tissue is more disturbing intellectually than it is viscerally. It's the bacterial odors that incite involuntary disgust in me. Opening up abscesses—many of which I've done in a totally outpatient setting—have made me instantaneously nauseated. The stench of Pseudomonas and of Staph are instantly recognizable to me. I'm gagging just thinking about it.
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