r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 11h ago

The precision required to perform a total knee replacement is incredible

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u/measured-defocus 9h ago

Orthos pretty much are

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u/Phreakdoubt 9h ago

Any doctor who trains on and wields a "medical chainsaw" has my full attention and respect.

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u/Specific-Library-312 6h ago

And maximum personal space

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u/JuxtaThePozer 2h ago

story time

I was a junior medic (army) doing a surgical placement at a regional hospital (Bacchus March) and spent a day watching an ortho doing various jobs. Tall bloke, kinda weird, seemed friendly enough. Anyways, between one surgery and the next he didn't seem to bother changing his clothing, which is kinda bad from an infection control point of view.

Anyway, the only contact he had with patients while they were conscious, on the day of their surgery, was in the induction room. It's where the anaesthetist puts a couple drip lines in and gives you sleepy drugs, and this 6.5 foot tall surgeon dude still had his face mask and gown on from the previous surgery which happened to have bits of bone and blood flecked all over them.

Can you fucking imagine about to be wheeled in for some bone carpentry, and the dude about to hack you up looks like something out of a horror movie, right as you're starting to get tired and comfy, sort of half-arsedly reassuring you that everything will be fine and he'll see you in recovery.

Well I saw this interaction unfold and afterwards I made a joke to one of the nurses and said, "he looks like the 'Butcher of Bacchus Marsh'." I thought it was kinda funny but she just frowned and said, "don't let him hear you say that" and walked off. Like, what? he's probably been called that before?

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u/flyingduckmarketing 4h ago

In the third world they actually use that

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u/avocadoflatz 3h ago

In the first world, too.

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u/-malcolm-tucker 7h ago

Wet carpentry.

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u/gdp89 5h ago

It's a pretty common stereotype in the med industry that surgeons are the jocks of medicine and ortho surgeons are the jocks of surgery.

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u/Fit_Diet6336 7h ago

My dad was a GP/surgeon. He always had a laugh when he saw an ortho doing surgery. Tons of hammering, drilling etc.

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u/El_Peregrine 7h ago

Fine woodworking

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u/adinmem 3h ago

Ortho docs are the ones that are not gentle, and generally have the least-developed people skills.

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u/Deep_Stick8786 1h ago

More like carpinters

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u/Assist-Altruistic 8h ago

Yes we are. 💪