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Discussing Another Matter Quickly In The OR

The OR is also a place for scientific work and this entails discussions and conversations not necessarily related to the case at hand.

Published onOct 25, 2022
Discussing Another Matter Quickly In The OR
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Just before Professor Vajkoczy leaves the room, there are still a few more pieces of information that the senior surgeon would like to share with her chief. So he takes a seat and listens as she delivers the rest of her pitch over the open wound of the patient — this will take only two minutes and that research project cannot wait any longer. The OR is also a place for scientific work and this entails discussions and conversations not necessarily related to the case at hand — many meticulous operations have become routine up to a certain point which leaves room for other thoughts and matters of research, keeping both boredom and stress at bay. 

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Anna L. Roethe:

›Science and practice are by no means contradictory. Observation, reflection, and the testing by experiment are qualities required for each‹, neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing writes in 1925. Modern surgeon-scientists are nevertheless facing a large multiplicity of economic and scientific constraints, and there is an ongoing discussion about the expert role of surgeons in developing and testing new tools or applying results from laboratory science to the operating room.

Anna L. Roethe:
  • Cushing, Harvey: Experimentum periculosum; iudicium difficile; in: Consecratio medici and other papers, Boston 1928, here p.242.