tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post8161777279885296767..comments2024-02-10T02:14:39.898-05:00Comments on Buckeye Surgeon: Laying on HandsJeffrey Parks MD FACShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650563299849196122noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-56151064024110884872010-03-16T06:11:27.381-04:002010-03-16T06:11:27.381-04:00I actually like the term. For me, it is code for ...I actually like the term. For me, it is code for a thorough examination, unlike any that an emergency doc has ever seen before. :-)<br /><br />For example, I might mention to a fellow resident about a consult that I've laid eyes but not hands on the patient.DHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251680600047999918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-15735806711528438862010-03-09T12:38:13.556-05:002010-03-09T12:38:13.556-05:00DKV-
Easy, baby. This isn't surgery vs ER doc...DKV-<br />Easy, baby. This isn't surgery vs ER doc round 12. I just don't like the phrase. Sounds hokey.Jeffrey Parks MD FACShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15650563299849196122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-47445906780754646902010-03-08T11:59:35.987-05:002010-03-08T11:59:35.987-05:00You guys come across as a bit bitter.
I hear com...You guys come across as a bit bitter. <br />I hear complaints when the consult isn't called soon enough, or isn't called at all, or called too early. . . <br /><br />If your goal is to never get an inappropriate consult, people will get the message - and you won't get called for some appropriate ones.DKVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15449584867334837982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-14342645021205812102010-02-27T13:38:13.985-05:002010-02-27T13:38:13.985-05:00my pet peeve is the "curbside consult".my pet peeve is the "curbside consult".Emmanuellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-82894615969670239632010-02-26T00:14:03.311-05:002010-02-26T00:14:03.311-05:00Actually I find that most surgeons do a better and...Actually I find that most surgeons do a better and more focussed history-taking than the ER guys do for these patients. <br /><br />They still probably don't need an operation, but I can often figure out what they do need and help get them that.<br /><br />So I guess I don't mind these calls, even though they are CYA for the most part.Victor Lazaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11634100793910465958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-33770416463372751152010-02-24T12:55:39.505-05:002010-02-24T12:55:39.505-05:00I must say, as a patient, I'm particularly imp...I must say, as a patient, I'm particularly impressed by the palpation skills of surgeons. One time, numerous internists, ob-gyns, and even a gung-ho radiologist mooshed around my abdomen and could find no source of my pain. Then a surgeon touched me and immediately (and accurately) said, "You have a mass." I there's something very educational about touching a patient and then being the one to open up the package and actually see what's inside.<br /><br />But I get what you mean about the hokey sound of "laying hands on" someone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-88460386621460295632010-02-22T14:11:32.210-05:002010-02-22T14:11:32.210-05:00Why don't you refuse?Why don't you refuse?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-53629102353277918882010-02-21T13:50:24.974-05:002010-02-21T13:50:24.974-05:00I'm always happy to go "lay hands on the ...I'm always happy to go "lay hands on the patient." Then, I usually activate my X ray vision and my magic surgeon wand to make diagnoses that previous examiners, labs, and imaging could not elucidate. Happy to just "swing by" and "pop my head in" to "lay hands on the patient."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-66982857298496911712010-02-19T10:35:10.234-05:002010-02-19T10:35:10.234-05:00I LIKE that term...but then again I Like ABBA and ...I LIKE that term...but then again I Like ABBA and Gossip Girl...<br />I hate those ER guys too...like the one who asked me to "Standby" while he pushed 10 mg of Vecuronium/150mgPentothal to intubate some 500lb whale without a neck,sleep apnea, and Incisors that would put Bugs Bunny to Shame...Wanted to "Lay Some Hands" on that A-hole...<br /><br />When I was in Med School, umm about the time Iran-Contra was big news, it was totally different...Surgery Residents would bitch at you for EXAMINING the patient first, like your 3rd year clumsy palpating and percussing was gonna screw things up for them...<br /> There was this one snooty Internist who used that term alot..."The TRUE DIAGNOSTICIAN merely needs to LAY HANDS ON THE PATIENT!!!, to ascertain the Diagnosis..." this from a guy who never met a patient he didn't draw a CBC/PT,PTT/SMA-20(+ Magnesium!)Thyroid Functions, 24 hr Urine, etc etc<br /><br />FrankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com