Intro to Surgeon: A Foreign Language Credit

I’m a student who just did my first weekend rotation, so I was able to work with some new surgeons in the OR. My favorites were:

1) the surgeon who told me I need to pay attention to his line of sight to know when to stop fluoroing. Instead of, you know, just saying something.

2) A different surgeon who told me to “flip the image laterally”, then got pissed because I...flipped the image laterally. He wanted me to save and swap the images on the monitor.

Anyone have any funny stories? One of my techs was telling me about a surgeon who told him to “C-out” which he meant as oblique towards you, but the tech thought it meant “drive the c-arm out”

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