And this is why your aren't a surgeon.....right?????
Yeah... missing parts aren't good. Hell, I love shooting 1911s, but I just don't take 'em apart and clean 'em enough to remember it all! lol
Confession #2:
Sometimes I look up videos of procedures on YouTube before I perform them on live patients! Truly, lots of guys do this, and with good reason, but I hear nurses making fun of docs who do. Stupid, if you ask me... hell, if it's been 6 months since I put in a chest tube or a central line, would you rather I look it up to refresh my memory, or just go at it blind, or just let you die waiting for a surgeon to arrive or to be shipped somewhere a surgeon is available? I'll tell ya something, you'd be surprised how many true surgeons, whether, vascular, ortho, general, colo-rectal or cardio-thoracic will pull out a book and look up a procedure before going into the case. It's actually just good practice... but those who aren't responsible for doing it or the consequences after the fact think it should all be at instant recall - everything you ever learned in decades of training and practice. lol
Nurses are petty, though... if they don't like a physician, they'll nitpick every little thing to make it seem like he's a dumbass, when in reality, they're all dumbasses (the physicians, that is).