12. Unless you're old
enough to know better,
you still think you might
marry a surgeon.
13. You can actually look
at a naked (that's necked
here in the South) body and
you really do think "parts is parts."
14. You can eat things like that "green
stuff" in that blue bowel that's been in
the lounge refrigerator for more than
a week, and not get sick. You might even ask around for the recipe.
15. You can look at an adult circumcision wrapped in Coban and
think "Hmm ... it does looks like a Doberman pinscher's ear."
16. You're finding that the multiple pairs of scrubs at home are slowly
replacing your other clothes and you're actually taking them on trips
with you as loungewear.
17. You save PTO's/vacation time and every penny to go to the annual
AORN meeting somewhere far away, and prefer this to going on trips
with the family.
18. Sexual harassment? All these years you thought sexual innuen-
dos, bawdy jokes and remarks about your anatomy was normal OR
conversation.
19. You believe that "a chance to cut is a chance to cure."
20. You believe that the size of the patient is in direct proportion to
how long you're going to have to stand beside that surgeon holding
those retractors with his elbow constantly hitting you in the breast.
21. You haven't worked in the OR for a while, and you come back and
find that the smell of a burning cautery stimulates fond memories.
22. The CDC or OSHA classify your OR shoes as a biohazard.
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