ARE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS REALLY STUPID?

Are orthopedic surgeons really dumb? If you stick with me to the end of this video, you’ll surely find out. WARNING: Not to be viewed by anyone who has undergone a sense of humor bypass. Anesthesia, Anesthesiologist, Anaesthesiologist, Anaesthetist, Orthopedic Surgeon

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[bluecheesesandwich]

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.”

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

[AlanZablocki]

They aren't stupid, actually orthopedic residencies are very competitive. Actually, they are tunnel-visioned, not stupid.

[drandrewtan]

GOLD!

What do you call 2 orthopods staring at an ECG?

A double blind study.

[muditjoshi]

I think the primary issue is that Anesthesiologists have to learn the steps of the surgical procedure and it's physiological implications, but an orthopedic surgeon does not have to learn basics of peri-operative medicine and Anesthesiology to do a perfect fixation 😂😂

[matthiasscheffler]

When I went to med school in Germany in the 90s our ortho professor was always saying that to become an orthopod one had to be strong and stupid... a statement he used to justify he wasn't hiring any women...

[Chakre]

I once saw an orthopaedic surgeon doing a sub cuticular on a patient who unfortunately died on table with a DNAR already in place. His reply was that his work is always neat. 🤷Nuff said

[Neo_to]

To become a good surgeon, you have to cut into as many patients as possible and therefore, you have to disregard any medical conditions that would interfere with you cutting into a patient. That's not necessarily stupid, it's just how surgeons are being trained. To become a good anaesthesiologist however, you're being trained to keep patients alive, so it's only natural that these two specialties oppose each other in certain cases.

[Sami-Nasr]

To be an orthopedic surgeon you need the strength of the bull and at least half the intelligence

[venkataramanjanardhanan]

It's the same in India.
I've had some hilarious experiences with ortho

[scootaccess]

Been few months at ortho department, and I'm surprised to find all orthopaedics surgeon to be at whole new level of genius compared to other specialists I've met, except surgical specialist. They have a good basic science, physiology of the body, their examination, anatomic memorization skill and carpenter skills. I thought ortho would be easy when I first apply. I misjudged. they care about every little details and during passover, they always taught me to see pt in a hollistic approach despite only dealing with orthopaedics problem like debridement, open fracture in ED, they taught me the importance of resuscitation, optimizing patient prior operation, deciding time for operation vs optimization first as mortality is something we best tried to avoid. many things have to be consider and somehow the workload is overwhelming I'm even thinking of changing department due to how stupid I felt

[cdnav]

Why did god created Anesthesiologists?

So that surgeons may have super heroes

[bhuiyadip]

The issue of orthopedic brute force is the Universal truth. Ask the issue of physical strength to a jr doctor who has to quit the residency despite getting that.

[sskfrey]

Yes I had to hear that from our trauma surgents for like 2 years when the study came out. Was funny though.

[lonelywalker]

Hahaha their trait may be spread across the country, we also have this kind of situation too😂

[colorburst]

Obviously they are smarter! because the cut off marks that is needed to join ortho residency is higher than that of anesthesiology.

[framma]

Oh my god! I love this so much 😂😂😂
Also, why are we only pointing out the orthopaedic people - all surgeons should be considered.

[TheMopangbend]

Orthopedic Dr. : Hi can you tell me your name and what we’re doing today ? Me: If you don’t know those answers were not doing anything here today.

[mferso]

Really!!? They made a study about this issue?

[timonhallas]

Hmmm
Granted, I'm an unscientific sample size of one.

My shoulder replacement surgery resulted in severe irritation/injury to the brachial plexus.

Result,
the interscalene nerve block that was supposed to last up to 3 days, lasted 2+ months.

Thankfully, fingers of the operative arm became able to twitch within 3 weeks.
Indicating that the Ortho didn't cut nerves.

Added benefit: A thoroughly enjoyable NCS/EMG test (sarcasm)


Obviously, it was the irritation/injury, that caused the paralysis of my left arm and upper body, and muscle wasting.
20 pounds of muscle on the operative side of my body...poof, gone/wasted within 6 weeks.

Credit to both the anesthesiologist and ortho, both were in constant contact with me.

However, the ortho slipped, and subtly pointed the finger at the anesthesiologist.

The Anesthesiologist went above and beyond in my opinion
...researching the batch of meds used, etc.

As noted, the Ortho performed excellent follow up too.

Question is, his ratio of genuine concern vs fear of being sued for malpractice?
To his credit, I say 80/20.

Fear of being sued is a genuine concern in any profession.

[alvodin]

As a non medical professional my experience is mostly that orthopedists and surgeons are insanely rude, have brittle egos, and generally lacking empathy and a sense of humor.