The Fun Filled 251st Blog Post

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Defense lawyer:       Doctor, what makes you think that you are qualified to give opinion in this case?

Surgeon:                    I am the world’s greatest surgeon.

Defense lawyer:       Really? How can you say that?

Surgeon:                    I have to. I am under oath to speak nothing but the truth.

 

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Prof. M.K. Banerjee:         Name three greatest surgeons that you know.

New resident:                   In ascending order, Christian Bernard, Hamilton Bailey, 

                                          and Prof. M. K. Banerjee.

 

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      The professor gave a verbal blasting to the junior resident who had committed some mistake. As the junior resident was leaving, the professor muttered to himself, “The same to you”.

      The senior resident who was new to the unit overheard him and asked the meaning of it. The professor replied, “I was a junior resident once and I know what they think when they leave the room after receiving a blasting from the professor.”

 

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      The new junior resident was describing his first meeting with the Head of the Department. “He put out his hand and I went right up and shook it.”

      “Shook it!” exclaimed the senior resident. “You better leave the department right now. You should have licked it.”

 

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In surgery, the love triangle consists of the surgeon, his work, and himself.

 

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            A junior consultant was not promoted to higher rank because of his alcohol dependence. The Head of the department called him and said, “Listen son, if you will give up alcohol and start concentrating on your work, you can be soon promoted to the post of associate professorship and one day you may even become a professor like me.”

             The consultant replied, “Sir, when I drink, I feel like the Director of this hospital. Then why should I bother about becoming something as small as a professor.”

 

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“When I see you operating, I stand and wonder”, remarked the Professor.

“About how I operate so well?” asked the junior consultant.

“No. I wonder why you operate at all.”     

 

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Friend:           I never had the pleasure of meeting the head of your surgical                                   unit.

Junior resident:        What makes you think that it would be a pleasure?

 

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The Spirited Solution

Dr. Jolting (Fictional Name) was taking the round in the postoperative ward when he noticed few mattresses kept isolated from rest of the ward. On inquiry from the nursing ward in-charge, he learned that somehow the mattress had been infested with bedbugs and are being kept isolated while the hospital administration arranges the services of pest control specialist to control the infestation.

Dr. Jolting asked the ward in-charge whether he does not have anything in the ward to control the bedbugs. The ward in-charge informed that they do not have any pesticides in the ward. The nearest thing they have is the surgical spirit.

Surgical spirit is alcohol mixed with a poisonous substance, usually methanol, a highly toxic liquid so that it cannot be used for human consumption.

Dr. Jolting remarked, “That is indeed very good.” “Use the surgical spirit to disinfect the mattresses. Either the bedbugs will get killed by the surgical spirit or they will get too intoxicated (drunk) by the alcohol to bite anyone.”

(Based on allegedly true incident)

— ND
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The Sober Person

Q:         What do you call a sober, smiling, courteous person at a surgical conference banquet?

A:               The waiter.

 (Truth or Fiction? Let my Surgeon friends decide.)

— ND
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The Architecture Student

A young lady came for consultation in the Surgical Out-Patient Department (OPD). She gave history of abdominal pain in the upper part of abdomen, which was not improving despite taking treatment in Jaipur and in Kota. She was highly worried as no doctor had been able to give a satisfactory answer to reason for her problem.

A young lady came for consultation in the Surgical Out-Patient Department (OPD). She gave a history of abdominal pain in the upper part of the abdomen, which was not improving despite taking treatment in Jaipur and in Kota. She was highly worried as no doctor had been able to give a satisfactory answer to the reason for her problem.

Dr. Dev (Fictional Name), who was sitting in the OPD, examined the patient and went through her old treatment prescription slips.

After contemplating for some time, he asked her, “What are you doing in Jaipur?” The young lady replied, “I am a student of Architecture in a college in Jaipur and live there in the hostel”. 

Dr. Dev next asked, “Was there a party in your college the day before your pain started?” “Yes”, replied the lady after thinking for some time.

“Well”, replied Dr. Dev, “your pain is related to the Alcohol you consumed at the party.” “It appears you have a mild case of pancreatitis induced by the Alcohol. We will do some tests to confirm this, but as it is a mild case you should get well soon.”

For Non-Medicos:  Pancreas is a deep-seated gland in the upper part of the abdomen, which secretes many hormones including Insulin and other digestive enzymes. Pancreatitis is an inflammatory process of the pancreas usually due to gallstones or alcohol intake. In its severe form it can even cause death of the patient.

The young lady exclaimed, “Thank God! I did not bring my mother along to the OPD.”

After the lady had gone, the senior resident looking impressed asked, “How did you guess that her problem was related to alcohol intake and how did you had the guts to ask her that she had taken alcohol?”

Please note: In India, consumption of alcohol by females is still not socially accepted widely.

“If you forget that she was female,” replied Dr. Dev, “then there is history of young person living in hostel away from family, in a creative field, in a urban progressive centre, whose pain started after a party, who has been adequately treated for gastritis and acid-peptic ulcer disease then you will think of alcohol-induced pancreatitis. Don’t let just one factor, the gender, blind you to the other factors pointing towards the diagnosis.”

Tip: If you have excluded the common diagnosis, the uncommon should be considered.

Tip: Don’t let the gender of the patient stop you from considering all probable diagnosis.

Tip: History of the patient is best taken in privacy even from relatives, otherwise they may be shy and hide part of their history which they think may not be acceptable to their family.

Tip for patients: It is better to have a consultation with doctor in private as you do not know what questions the doctor can ask in relation to your illness.

(Based on true incident)

— ND
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