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Yeah, I'll just call myself a surgeon and pick it up as I go along. No problem!

Exactly, how dare they suggest I'm not a surgeon. I'm off to buy a scalpel and put out a few craigslist ads.

Two 10 minute consultations with a surgeon turned into $500. An x-ray here and a couple lab tests and we were still out $1000.

But I don't pretend to be a surgeon and perforate a patient's aorta. Pretending to be competent to gain people's trust is fraud.

When was the last time you saw or heard of a poor American medical specialist or surgeon? The question is: Will America ever change their ways?

If I were morbidly obese I'd rather have an enema with a thin, healthy person's feces than have a surgeon cut me up and put a band around my stomach to reduce the amount I can eat. Am I the one that's weird?

When the surgeon finds a tumor or cancer in your brain, it doesn't try to coax it to become better or try to "enhance it" to be better. A hole is cut in the head, and lasers and scalpels are used to physically remove the cancer.

He's a media-savvy guy who was considered for surgeon general and has a career appearing on mainstream TV, including Oprah and Larry King Live. Someone like that can't afford to be too far ahead of the curve.

After I woke up on Wednesday with the worst headache of my life looking just like that first photo, I went to my oral surgeon, who sent me in for emergency surgery immediately. I spent a night in the ICU and three days recovering.

You don't qualify as surgeon without hands on experience or qualify as a pilot without hands on experience or train as a mechanic by watching 'the fast and the furious'. In all these areas, we acknowledge that fiction and second hand reports aren't a substitute for first-hand experience.

Having a trauma surgeon remove a ruptured spleen, or being treated for a heart attack, are situations where demand is completely inelastic. One might shop around for the best way to spend a spare $10,000 for an eye lift, but who can be expected to shop for an economically satisfying deal while in a life-threatening situation?

It's generally good to get an "own occupation" policy because otherwise you can be denied payment because you're able to work a McDonald's drive-through even though you've been a surgeon your entire life.

He's a practicing neurosurgeon with published research, but, like half of HN, doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to radiological safety; therefore, his opinions on pharmacology are irrelevant to you? That seems like a surprisingly dumb argument for you, John, but maybe I just misunderstood it.

> 'One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular reconstruction. > At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly asked, Do you have any controls? Well, the great surgeon drew himself up to his full height, hit the desk, and said, Do you mean did I not operate on half the patients?

The other example he gave was giving doctors performing surgery time to step away from the patient, so that they dont turn things into a real life game of surgeon simulator, an example I personally find to be extremely horrifying and nightmare inducing.

The operation note will be written by the surgeon and will detail everything she did during the operation, what was removed, what was placed, etc. The final pathology will be the best place to get detailed information about what the tumor, where it is, the pathologic stage, etc.

To me, the spirit of philosophy is asking why when everyone just accepts, much like the student in this anecdote: One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular reconstruction. At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly asked, Do you have any controls? Well, the great surgeon drew himself up to his full height, hit the desk, and said, Do you mean did I not operate on half of the patients?

Reminds me of the classic joke: A surgeon has a backed up sink, and he calls a plumber. The plumber comes, works for 15 minutes, fixes the drain, and gives the surgeon his bill." Six hundred dollars? ! ? ," the surgeon exclaims. "For fifteen minutes? I'm a surgeon and even I don't make that kind of money!" "Yeah," replies the plumber. "I didn't make that kind of money when I was a surgeon, either."