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DRAMATIC EFFECT TV shows tend to distort life in the OR.
they could send a business office staffer, as long as it were HIPAAcompliant.
• On-the-job ailments. How much incident and accident paperwork do
you think you'd have to fill out if a surgeon keeled over in the middle
of a case from a heart attack? You'd probably have to go without a
break that day, right?
• Quality patient care. Has any surgeon really sat by an ICU bed,
wrapped in a blanket, to hold an overnight vigil for a post-surgical
patient? I only work in the OR, so I might not have seen it happen, and
maybe it's just something that no one ever talks about.
Hospital dramas aren't all bad. The surgeons' and staff's great hair
always stays under their hats, which doesn't always happen in real ORs.
Their reactions to anatomical anomalies are pretty much the same as
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