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Tonsillectomy on YouTube
One of my patients mentioned that she and her mom had watched this on the Internet. I don’t use the coblator to do my tonsillectomies, but I must say I’m sorely tempted. This looks like fun.
Note that the patient is in the surgical position (the tongue is hidden under a retractor at the top of the screen, and the uvula is at the bottom of the screen).
Next is the old technique using electrocautery. The orientation is different — the uvula is at the top of the screen. This is how I did all my tonsils until 2005, which is when I adopted the microdebrider technique. Bloodless to be sure, but it leaves a hellish burn in the throat.
I haven’t found a microdebrider tonsillectomy video. For that matter, they don’t have one of the old scissors-and-snare technique, which I do use on occasion. Maybe I have a bright future ahead of me as a YouTube surgeon?
D.
Lord help me, I cannot watch.
There are a lot of things I can’t watch. An enucleation, for one thing (removal of an eye). Amputations. I remember the one amputation I was involved in as an intern — made me ill.
Sorry, I’m with Dean. I cannot watch. Not even for interest’s sake. Nope. Might be childish.. but, yuck.
Oh good Lord. You’d think I was a proctologist.
Think of it as auto mechanics. On people.
Think of a proctologist as an ENT that goes really deep.
I think of a proctologist who practices ENT without any clear sense of direction.
“Blow your nose!”
“Oh, shit.”
Watching is no worse than those still photos.
I can watch almost anything if it’s not me up there. I had a couple of laparoscopies and the surgeon wanted to show me the video of the first. A couple of minutes in and I was ready to walk out of that theater, but only because those were MY guts on the screen. that was ME.
Mike pointed out there was no way to tell if it really was ME. It’s not like the parts are stamped with a VIN number. The guy could have just shown that movie to all the women who came through.
You must have missed the part where the doc stamped your transverse colon with a VIN 😉