Spoiled Surgeons?

[ortess1971]

Just out of pure curiosity,what kind of cases get two techs(or scrub nurses) in your OR? I like the OR I'm in now, but it's not unusual to have a surgeon stamp his/her feet because they can't have two scrubs for an inguinal hernia or some other small case. Heck, the places I've scrubbed before, you had one tech for a lap appy and sometimes even a lap chole, if we were short staffed. I even had to scrub a AAA with just me and the doc until the PA showed up. Are our docs just a wee bit spoiled?

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Do they think that OR staff are free$$?

That line of thinking isn't limited to just surgeons, unfortunately.

[sunnyjohn]

.... Do they think that OR staff are free$$?

We do it for the love of the game... Haven't ya heard!!!!

If I could just get 1% of those surgeons OR fees, I'd be sitting in a jacuzzi right now counting the money in my IRA!:monkeydance:

[TracyB,RN, RN]

We normally have residents or med students to retract for the surgeon. Today we didn't & had to call the on call person to come in & retract b/c doc needed an extra set of hands to retract (shoulder & hip). I wouldn't consider that spoiled, though.