Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear During Surgery

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Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear During Surgery

1. "Better save that. We'll need it for the autopsy."

2. "Someone call the janitor - we're going to need a mop."

3. "Accept this sacrifice, O Great Lord of Darkness"

4. "Bobo! Come back with that! Bad Dog!"

5. "Wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what's that?"

6. "Hand me that...uh...that uh.....thingie."

7. "Oh no! I just lost my Rolex."

8. "Oops! Hey, has anyone ever survived 500ml of this stuff before?"

9. "Damn, there go the lights again...."

10. "Ya know, there's big money in kidneys. Hell, the guy's got two of them."

11. "What do you mean you want a divorce?"

12. "Ooooops!"

Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear During Surgery

13. Nurse, get online, go to surgery.com, and click on "Are you completely lost?"

14. Will someone please go get me... (insert name of any Surgical Textbook).

15. Wow.... never seen blood spray that high before!!

16. Wait, nobody move, I think i lost my cell phone.

17. Damn, what leg was i supposed to remove???

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Alzheimer's.

Ooooops!!! is the one I definitely wouldn't want to hear..... :chuckle

Specializes in surgical, emergency.

We started a top 10 list one time, and ended up with a LOT more.

Here's a few that I remember.

18. Well, that sure "sounds" arterial!

19. Who's following me???

20. BEEPER: 8631 --911 (our ED extension, and you know the other)

21. OH Shi#!!!! SUCTION!!!

22. Call my office, and cancel the rest of my day.

Keep 'em coming! Mike

Oh cool!! Looky here...Eat At Joe's!!

23. WOW, I never saw that before!

24. I don't know what it is, don't you know what it is?

25. Get the sales rep. I've never seen this instrumentation before.

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

26. "Is that the aorta?"

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