As with all Nazis, here's hoping he dies before he gets a chance to do any real damage.
You won't be missed, traitor. Except perhaps by the Ukrainian sunflowers once they've exhausted the fertilizer spilling out of your veins.
Thanks!! As you've seen already, I'm happy to ramble: feel free to hit me with any questions. The OR is a pretty alien environment to anyone who doesn't work there.
Just keep in mind that as the surg tech, I'm literally the rock bottom of the OR food chain. And an anonymous internet stranger, so take this all in with the credibility it deserves (none at all!).
You might get chewed out.
...if I'm not careful I'll get Nintendo's attention, and then I'm fucked!
Expected outcome. Then I go to HR to complain that the second I show up with a fun scrub cap, they take away fun scrub caps in a decision that's clearly targeting me personally.
murderer
Not to worry - Luigi took care of him.
Whatever happened to this piece of shit?
He won the election, unfortunately.
>_>
Conciseness is not my strength.
"What's wrong with Mario?? Dave has a Starwars cap and no one's griped about it!"
The short version is we're the surgeon's bitch. Before a surgery, we pull all the instrument sets and sterile supplies needed for a case; open those items to create a sterile field, and organize that field so that it can easily facilitate the actual case. Just before the case, we'll help position and sometimes (this is usually nurse territory) prep the surgical site on the patient.
During the case, passing instruments to and from the backtable/mayo stand is our bread and butter... if you've seen TV shows about the OR they always have this scene where the surgeon says "scalpel" and holds his hands out expectantly. The hand the comes out of the corner of the screen with a scalpel is me. ...except if they actually have to vocalize "scalpel" you've already fucked up - more realistically they'd jump on the opportunity to say something snarky like "You awake over there, bro?" ...generally we need to know surgeries well enough to anticipate the expected steps. Do your job well and the surgeon doesn't have to ever actually ask for anything cuz it's already in their hand. We also handle specimens and assist with certain surgical actions like retracting tissue, clipping bleeders, suturing (sometimes... most surgeons like to do the suturing themselves). The whole time we're monitoring for breaks in sterility... like a case I did today, I noticed the surgeon had a tiny hole in his glove, so I called him out - didn't break skin, so the surgeon was fine, but at some point in the case, something got contaminated, but we don't know what, so that patient got extra antibiotics and will be more closely monitored for infection.
After the case, we again help move the patient, then tear it all down, set the instruments up to go down to sterile processing, clean the room up, and open for the next one.
This video (fair warning: gore) does a decent job showcasing it (most surgical tech content on youtube is not great).
Elbow deep in some stranger's abdomen is 'just another Tuesday'.
It's a cool job - I'm especially lucky to have it, cuz when I enlisted I was was just randomly assigned to the military's version of it... could have just as well been put into any other job in the military. I'm a civilian now, and using my GI bill to go to nursing school - crossing over to the dark side soon! Hoping to stay in the OR though, just as a nurse instead of a tech.
Pay is okay... I've been at it for a decade, and am up to $24/hr. Nurses make a lot more than we do, so I generally don't advise people bother with paying for a civilian surgical tech school when they could get an associates in nursing instead - similar prereqs, not that much more of a time commitment to graduation, but way higher earning potential.
Also it hurts. My back, hips, knees, and ankles are pretty well fucked. We almost never sit except on our lunch break, and standing in the same position (or contorted pulling some dude's liver away from the surgeon for hours) causes lots of degradation over time, so it's kind of a shitty job to shoot for as a long term option. Hitting that decade mark is more a result of me procrastinating than anything else - idk why any scrub tech sticks with it long enough to retire from it, but people do.
I’m wrapping up my med lab program myself.
If you end up working in a hospital lab, the OR would probably let you sit in for a few cases if you ask. Especially for shit like thyroid cases where we send a shitload of frozens to lab just so you can see our end of bringing that chaos to you.
I’ve got a background in histo and might end up doing quick TAT H&E slides mid-surgery
You're probably already familiar with Mohs procedures, but if not, you sound like you'd be golden for that. They slice the specimen along the entire diameter and screen the full surface of the wound for cancer - as opposed to just checking margins. ...then again, that might be the kind of thing you're leaving if you've got a history in histo... I have no idea what the breakdown is of who does what in the lab setting.
I'll leave the thread up incase anyone wants to continue the conversation tho.
I can barely afford rent!
Well... the good news is you can stretch your income a bit further with spaghettification!
AFAIK, there's no fine print that says "...except when that enemy is the president."
Stop harassing protesters and do your job, troops.
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LF 3.5mm 'silencer' plugs, and/or other ways to fuck with TVs in public areas that are blasting Fox all the time...
(lemmy.world)
Inspired by this thread.
I could have sworn when I was in highschool (y’know, like 25 thousand years ago) you could order a bag of like 50 3.5mm audio jack plugs but with no wire or connection after the plug. I'm searching for these now, but the closest I'm seeing are legit components designed to be an adaptor or connect to a wire.
It was just a 3.5mm audio plug with matte black plastic cap on the end, so you’d plug it into a TV’s headphone jack and some models of TVs would be permanently silenced until someone unplugged the cap, because it was sending its audio to the ‘speakers’ that were just plugged in. And once plugged in, it just looked like a screw cover cap - nothing protruding. But also didn’t damage anything, so you couldn’t get in any real trouble for doing it.
Shoddy photoshop to illustrate the gist:
…am I just imagining shit? If anyone knows what I’m talking about and figure out the magic search terms to actually pull it up, please drop a link to a product that can be ordered.
Anyway, the TV in my work's breakroom is one of the culprits, so I'd love to hit it with one of these and see how long it takes for them to figure out why it won't vomit out the misinformation they're addicted to.
Audio jack sabotage aside, any suggestions on how to otherwise fuck with it would also be golden.
Thanks all!
My death cult is better than yours.
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Fuck yeah! Pumpkin spice is delicious! That shit oughta be year round.