Birthday Everyday
I don’t really like babies. I never have. Growing up, when a family member showed up with a newborn we played the obligatory game of...
Take another little piece of my heart…or foot…or hand
During surgery, we take out a lot of things: tumors, gallbladders, ovaries, etc. All of these pieces are careful dissected out and handed...
McScreamy-The doctors they didn't show you on Grey's Anatomy
There is a common stereotype that surgeons are jerks. Somehow when the writers of Grey's Anatomy got together they came to the conclusion...
Don't tell the kids, but there is no tooth fairy
I've decided, for my personal sanity, that the medical industry needs a policy limiting the number of surgical instruments in existence...
So you pass sponges right?
No one knows what a surgical tech does. Hell, I didn’t really understand what a surgical tech did until I was wrist deep in someone’s...
Welcome to the OR
The operating room is like a weird secret club that no one knows anything about and those who work within won’t discuss. In surgery, we...
