This was a story told to me by a visiting med student, about someone in his class who actually got kicked out of school. Just in case you were wondering what it takes:
The student was on his surgery rotation and was scrubbed in to a surgery with the chief of surgery. Somehow, he got contaminated.
Now staying sterile during a surgery is one of those mysterious things where you can touch one thing that seems disgusting (like bowel) and still be sterile, but you touch your chin and now you're contaminated. So you have to be very careful and a lot of the time you end up getting contaminated and sent out of the room to rescrub for reasons that you don't quite understand.
Anyway, the chief of surgery said to the med student: "You're contaminated. Go outside and rescrub."
The student replied, "No, I'm not."
Chief of Surgery: "Yes. You are."
Med student: "No, I'm not."
Chief of Surgery: "Yes, you are. Look, it's not a big deal. Just go outside, rescrub, then come back in."
Med student: "But I'm not contaminated. I'll prove it."
Then the med student proceeded to touch every single one of the sterile surgical instruments, and then stuck his hand into the patient's open body cavity in order to "prove" that he was still sterile. Although even if he had been sterile, I'm not sure what proof that provided other than proof that he was insane.
So in case you were wondering, that's what it takes to get kicked out of med school.
Thank god they booted his ass out of med school. That's about all that needs to be said about that.
ReplyDeleteBatcrap crazy!
ReplyDeletekicked out? he's lucky he wasn't disemboweled with the touched instruments by the scrub nurse!
ReplyDeleteI can't find the article online, but a guy from my medical school just got kicked out for filming his female housemates in the bathroom without their consent using a pen camera...
ReplyDeleteMy jaw actually dropped. Who in their right mind would ever do that?!
ReplyDelete*sigh* ... I don't even know what to say. Who would do that?!?!
ReplyDeleteAnd, given my life, he went on to a career in computing.
ReplyDeleteComputing is full of people who say, "I'm right, no matter all the proof you show me, and I will prove it to you by using 'proof' that makes no logical sense."
Well that sure showed the chief.
ReplyDeleteWhoa.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was that maybe he needs some haldol.
Deletehahah yes!
DeleteI actually think I get why he thought that would prove something. I think he did that to prove it because, in his/her mind, he probably thought: why would I ever do any of these things unless I was completely sterile?
ReplyDeleteBut, still. VERY WRONG.
Why the student did it doesn't matter. The student didn't follow orders. You must follow orders.
DeleteBut the top guy/gal who gives the orders is also human, and having emotions means one can get angry.
Surgeon goes nuts, cuts off and mutilates penis (preventing reattachment).
"Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital."
As everyone follows orders no one stopped the doctor in time I expect.
That is crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy
ReplyDeleteThe scrub nurse was kicking that student's butt all the way out of the OR. GLAD he/she/it got kicked out of med school.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a nice chief...If it had been MY chief of surgery, the conversation would have gone a little something like this:
ReplyDeleteChief: "You're contaminated. Go outside and rescrub."
Student: "No I'm not" (quite possibly ballsiest medical student in history of med students"
Chief: "Get the h___ out of my OR."
There would have been NO opportunity to "prove it".
I always suspect stories like this are urban legends. Like the presription for "Mofeen 5 pounds" or the Bunnyman bridge.
ReplyDeleteI know what you're saying. Although the guy told me that it was someone in his class.
DeleteAt my (notoriously nice, civil, and legendarily easy-going) hospital, it would have gone like this: "you're contaminated"
ReplyDelete"no i'm not"
"Ask the nurses if you're contaminated. If they say 'yes' you re-scrub RIGHT NOW"
i LOVE my hospital
I had moments on surgery where I could see myself doing something like that as a result of the sleep deprivation. Those were definitely crazy-making days.
ReplyDeletethat escalated quickly
ReplyDeleteA student at a med school in my current city was dismissed for going into a nearby nursing home, posing as a doctor, and writing/signing orders. And not just like "ADA diet, activity as tolerated" orders, I mean scopes and caths.
ReplyDeleteGreat story!
ReplyDeleteGot you beat here: one of our colleagues, stood trial a few months ago on kidnapping and pedophile charges. Something about kidnapping two kids and being inappropriate with them. No details provided in the news. Kind of horrifying a little bit. I don't really want to know the details. Not only was he expelled forever from any hospital ever, but his photograph was removed, or whited out, from every single roster. Basically, his existence in our hospital has been completely erased.
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do at our medical school to get kicked out is to perform poorly academically. I've never heard of someone being kicked out for being insubordinate, but then again we are all to crap-scared of the small world that is medicine to be an idiot on purpose.
ReplyDeleteWe have had one or two kicked out by the university's central disciplinary committee for intimidating juniors and so on. But that constituted being kicked out of the entire university with no re-entry, rather than the medical school alone.
yeah we had someone kicked out of ours for standing trial for murder (actually I don't think they so much got kicked out as went to jail, and think it was gbh or something that they convicted for in the end) Crazy times.
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