Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes On When You Go Under

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Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes On When You Go Under Pub. Date: 4/1/2010 Publisher: ECW Press

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Dr. Paul Whang, anesthetist, reveals operating room curses and superstitions, the characteristics of a good surgeon, and the patients that doctors fear. Operating Room Confidential is an insider's view of the fascinating and sometimes strange rituals and protocols of the operating room, as well as the people who work there.

What do doctors talk about during your surgery?

If a surgical instrument falls to the floor, is the five-second rule observed?

What characters do doctors encounter on a typical twenty-four-hour on-call shift?

What are the personality quirks of doctors who practice different specialties and what makes a good doctor?

Written by a doctor on the O.R. team, Operating Room Confidential is based on real people and actual incidents. This book takes the reader on a journey that unveils the way the hospital works in an accessible, conversational style, without intimidating medical jargon. Insightful and funny, this is a must-read for the curiosity seeker and anyone who has been or will be on the operating room table.

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Booklist Online

Fact-filled, poignant, and funny.

Scene Magazine

Eye-opening and full of personality.

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Waterloo Region Record

If you enjoy workplace anecdotes, you'll enjoy Operating Room Confidential ... It contains roughly equal measures of anecdotes and advice, a 21st century turn on the spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down.

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Fear of the mysterious world of sleep is a primordial emotion, as new parents quickly learn. Though few would deny that anesthesia is a true blessing of the modern world, the thought of surrendering to it provokes long-buried anxieties. Whang, a hospital anesthetist in Toronto, attempts to soothe these worries with an informative and lively guide to his profession and the hermetic world of the operating room in which he practices. Writing for a general audience, Whang discusses his experiences as an anesthetist for a wide range of procedures. He tells tales out of school of surgeries gone awry, the operating room pecking order, surgeons' choice of music and superstitions, and even some medical students' rite of passage, operating-room sex. Though he plays a supporting actor to the surgeon in the drama of an operation, Whang has years of observing patients' vital signs, and these must have made him a perceptive observer of hospital life. One entertaining chapter discusses research on the Myers-Briggs classifications of various medical specialists. Whang also offers practical information for potential patients on what to look for in a good surgeon and what to expect in the recovery room, and he answers the FAQs of his patients facing surgery. VERDICT This book provides a distinctive view of a medical specialty little known by the general public. Although the author's genial style and professional expertise make for an engaging read, his book could be better organized into a coherent narrative.—Kathy Arsenault, St. Petersburg, FL

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550229189
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication date: 4/1/2010
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 1,173,246
Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Whang, MD, is an anesthesiologist and a hospital consultant. A graduate of the University of Toronto, where he won the Thomas-Kendrick Gold Medal in pharmacology, and of the McMaster Medical School, he has been in practice for more than 15 years. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 A Day in the Operating Room 7

Chapter 2 On Call in the House of Scream 41

Chapter 3 Off-Label Truths About Doctors 59

Chapter 4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 84

Chapter 5 Outside of the O.R. 108

Chapter 6 On the Table 135

Chapter 7 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anesthesia: (But Were Too Unconscious to Ask) 167

Chapter 8 Some Cutting Remarks About the Future of the Operating Room 189

References 195

Acknowledgments 200

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