The “Easy Going” Surgeon

[thecuttinggardener]

This isn’t parody, this is a documentary.

[benoitbareau]

It remembers this joke :
An anesthesiologist takes the plane. As he is quietly seated, he hears the announcement "We need an anesthesiologist urgently in business class. He gets up, announces himself to the nearest air hostess. She accompanies him in business class to a seated gentleman reading.
The man looks up from his book and asks:
- are you an anesthesiologist?
- Yes sir, I am an anesthetist, what is the problem?
- Perfect, I'm a surgeon, could you direct the light correctly towards the book, I can't see well.

[fakeclanAbaddon]

These surgeons are usually nice to students. they take all their anger out on administators. And anaesthesia

[taebaebae]

It's fascinating how universal these mannerisms are. This is literally all I heard from surgeons while assisting anesthesia last month. I had to put the bed exactly where they wanted it, which was always "a bit higher" or "a bit lower". I just never got it right in one go. They kept on talking about the administration and their cars and were rarely satisfied with the instruments they were handed as they always wanted "the other one". The electrocoagulation didn't work properly almost every day and it was the nurses that were responsible for finding out why. And don't even get me started on the drapes. One day they got a different kind of drapes, which they loved, anesthesia not so much, and then when they went back to the regular drapes, they kept on asking about these new drapes. I don't even live in the US and yet it's all the same here.

[alexleonov]

The sad part this IS easy going as far as surgeons go

[bdawn]

So true. Many years ago as a nursing student in the role of scrub tech, a surgeon got frustrated at me for handing him the very instrument he kept asking for. He then yelled, “Don’t give me what I asked for, give me what I need!”

[teresemarinelli]

Hilariously accurate!! “Why is the patient moving?”

[ngocanhhoang]

He didn’t chase the med student out within the first 10 minutes so I would say he is pretty easy going

[drfelixgraham]

There's actually some research about this in other fields - when you're in a field where you're more or less required to be perfect and muscles can never be perfect, you end up rating as highly neurotic with a lot of ritualistic (and often contradictory) behaviors. It's how humans handle stress.

[shellyrae]

I once worked with a surgeon who thought I was truly psychic because I would hand her instruments before she asked. I let her think that I was supernatural instead of telling her she was just that predictable 😂

[Novemberrain]

As a retired Surgical Tech, I can verify this is REAL w Surgeons! I dont miss them at All but I miss the patients

[natashalawely]

not the "you'll understand when you pay taxes" 💀💀 i heard that so much growing up. i pay taxes now, and my beef isn't with social issues, it's with the military/defense fund sucking up half the budget.

[jjmaxwell]

Former certified surgical first assistant (CSFA) here. This is spot on for a “calm” surgeon. After 20 years as an FA in all specialties, including abdominal transplant, organ procurement and neurosurgery, I have heard it all and the line about calling HVAC to make it colder made me laugh out loud. I worked with a vascular surgeon a couple of years ago that we would have the room as cold as possible for the safety of the patients and he would still wear an ice pack vest and complain about it being too hot. Being rather warm-blooded myself, I had to judge the temperature by how many blankets and bear huggers anesthesia had for themselves and not on the patient! 3 blankets and 1 bear hugger meant that the room was just about right!

[dylanbilicki]

The fact that a member of the team actually went and got someone to explain why his equipment doesn’t work and he replied with, “why what doesn’t work? I don’t care. I don’t even care.” Is the funniest part of this whole video 😂😂😂

[Makermook]

The chillest surgeon I ever met was while I was the 2nd shift maintenance guy in a hospital (before I went to med school.) They were doing an organ harvest on a guy who had been shot in the head. The bulb blew in the main lamp and only the satellite was working. I had to get up on a ladder directly over this guy who was split open from crotch to tit and change the bulb in the main light while the surgeon kept working. He never missed a beat, never got flustered.

[Beingpoo]

Omg, why is this so accurate..I am from India, and most of the surgeons that I’ve been posted with have a similar way of talking, and somehow the older nurses are so supportive by cracking jokes to calm the med students down..

[annasastavros]

The three lies of the surgeon: 1. I’ll be done in 10 minutes. 2. No bleeding. 3. Good job anesthesia.

[iansullivan]

"Straight into administrator's pockets"
"I don't care. Throw it away."
I love that these are from the same character. It really makes him believable.

[stephanmurzyn]

From a retired paramedic/firefighter; I would love to see an interaction between ER and a first responder!

[gk.]

“I wanted it five minutes ago, it’s useless to me now. Throw it away.”
😂