Surgeon

The list contains information such as the surgeon being left or right handed. It is the technician’s job to make sure he or she has prepared the correct surgical instruments. Once the surgical tools are sterile and transported into the operating room the surgical tech is responsible for arranging…

or she may not make it back alive. “…we practice on the very patients that we are delivering care to.” (Weinstock, 2016, 3:35). Which is why Peter Weinstock and a team of specialists work together to create simulations that will better prepare the surgeon and his assistants before the…

to be a surgeon ever since I was a little child, and Operation was the primary testing ground of my skills. I know what you are going to say, “It’s such a childish game. It is not like the real thing at all.” I thought that same, but when I continuously lost, my frustration grew higher and higher. Losing any sort of game, makes me want to play it more. I do not want to call it stubbornness, but rather my competitive nature to always win and be persistent until my goal is reached. A surgeon does…

I saw the surgeon and he agreed that my gall bladder needed to come out ASAP and scheduled my surgery for two days after my appointment. I was scheduled for a 10 am surgery. I went on like nothing until the day before my surgery, but when morning came I was a nervous…

during his residency. However, the case does not say if Dr. Brown is a board certified surgeon or how long his surgical privileges last. According to the Board of Medicine regulation for Minnesota, physician assistants should practice medicine only with physician supervision (Minnesota Statutes, 2009). In Dr. Brown’s case, Dr. Brown should be considered a physician assistant because he is not a board certified surgeon. The evidence in Dr. Brown’s case shows he receives surgical privileges to…

“Sometimes, the surgical tech can even be hands-on with the patient,” Groinus says (Xu). Also said by Groinus, “Very often we have an opportunity to assist the surgeon by holding retractors and manipulating tissue,” she says, noting that surgical techs aren’t allowed to actually perform any portion of the surgery. The surgical techs are required to know the names of hundreds of medical instruments used throughout…

The Good Doctor: Episodes 1-4 The Good Doctor television show focuses on a surgical resident, Shaun Murphy, who has autism and savant syndrome. It takes place in San Jose, California. Shaun is described as having near-photographic recall and the ability to note extreme details and changes. The first episode started off with a medical emergency with an airport sign injuring a child’s neck. With his medical background, Shaun was able to stabilize the child. The doctors initially refused to listen…

Light At the End of the Tunnel Although Jeannette Walls and I share a common thread of being hospitalized at a young age, it is my belief after reading The Glass Castle that Jeannette had it far worse than I ever did. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette shares how she spent over a month in a hospital due to burns after she tried to make herself hot dogs. The time that Jeannette spent in the hospital was like a vacation from her crazy life and parents. She relished the time in the hospital because it…

Heysham Gibbon Jr.’s invention of a heart-lung machine, Gibbon was able to perform the first successful intercardiac surgery, also known as open heart surgery. Born in Philadelphia on September 29, 1903, Gibbon was born to John Heysham Gibbon Sr., a surgeon, and Marjorie Gibbon (Shumacker, 1982). Later in his life, he earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1923, and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1927 (Knight, 2001). Seven years later Gibbon went to work…

While the pain is fresh and the glory is sweet, I decided to write this article about my experience running the marathon and how in my opinion, it correlates metaphorically of how I started and my diurnal responsibility as a Surgical Technologist. Less than a month ago; on March 19, I ran my 3rd marathon. It is becoming a yearly affair for me and my wife to ran the Los Angeles Marathon that we always look forward for the next year. It started 3 years ago when my wife signed me up for my first…