RT Book, Section
A1 Selby, Luke V.
A2 Cochran, Amalia
A2 Braga, Ruth
SR Print(0)
ID 1132433039
T1 Tomfoolery, Shenanigans, and Hazing in Surgery
T2 Introduction to the Operating Room
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259587283
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1132433039
RD 2024/04/25
AB Like  most  exclusive  groups,  surgery  has  its  share  of  rites  of  passage—activities  ranging  from  the  silly  and  harmless  to  those  bordering  on  hazing.  As  you  will  soon  find  out,  the  OR  can  be  a  stressful  place,  and  different  surgeons  have  different  ways  of  relieving  the  tension  there.  While  some  techniques  are  funny,  harmless,  and  effective,  not  all  are.  Hopefully  the  only  thing  you  will  need  to  take  away  from  this  chapter  is  that  someone  managed  to  use  the  words  “tomfoolery”  and  “shenanigans”  in  a  medical  textbook,  but  unfortunately  this  chapter  exists  because  tomfoolery  and  shenanigans  aren’t  the  only  things  that  happen  in  an  OR.  We  will  try  to  describe,  from  the  point  of  view  of  a  current  surgery  resident,  specific  events  that  are  likely  to  occur  in  the  OR  and  how  to  respond  to  them.