To See Is Not To Do, Ok?
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| See No Evil, Do No Evil |
So, this morning I was inside the operatory doing a minor
surgery on a diabetic patient- a young, female, diabetic patient when I overhear
the following conversation from outside. The FNA- female nursing attendant
standing guard outside in the anteroom is
bawling in a loud, stentorian voice at someone who had come to meet me “No,
you can’t go in now. The Doctor is inside doing a patient.” I immediately stop
my work just as it is; lay down my instrument, pack the bleeding area with
gauze, signal my assistants to take a finger-break and going to the door ask
the loud-mouthed attender to step inside a minute. When she does, I give her my
best smile and tell her “Next time, you should say either - doctor is doing a
surgery or doctor is seeing a patient inside. Don’t mix them up and say I am
doing a patient- sounds obscene to hear. Do you get it?” I move back to the
table to re-start the surgery amidst the giggles of the entire staff. See or
Do? There is a heck of a difference, isn’t there?
