The workhorse of most video production - the professional camcorder - is also one of the best tools for shooting a variety of surgical operations. But it has its limitations and for some types of operations it is simply useless. Read more »
Welcome to the 21st edition of SurgeXperiences - the one and only surgical blog carnival - collecting the best from the surgical department of the medical blogosphere. I chose to call this edition “Tools of the Trade”. So what are those tools, and what exactly is the trade? I think the great variety of posts collected here shed some light on the many challenges encountered by surgical people everyday, and the different instruments - be they of steel or grey matter - utilized to overcome them.
As I am no ancient mariner, I won’t attempt to rhyme. But as recent studies show that a picture says exactly the same as 1014 words, I’ll stick with what I know - visuals. I’ve decorated this edition with some photos I’ve taken of aesthetic surgical instruments. Enjoy. Read more »
I was tagged by rlbates who was tagged by Midwife With a Knife for the six word memoir meme.
The instructions? Write a 6 word memior and tag 6 others. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
rlbates - My life is full of stitches.
MWWAK’s - Catch a baby, watch the floor.
Scanman - Aiming for accuracy in grayscale images
And here’s mine:
Marveled at inner and outer landscapes
Which sums up my love for nature and anatomy, two important aspects of my life. Lots of other things are and have been important to me, but it’s simply impossible to distill them all into 6 words.
I really don’t like pushing stuff on others, but this somehow comes across as more meaningful than other memes. Makes you think. But as I’m running out of possible blogs to tag, I’ll break the rule and tag just these four: Øystein in Antarctica , Kariknapp, Jeffrey and makeminetrauma,
The Sterile Eye is 6 months old, just learning to sit on its own and getting its first teeth. It’s also delightful to see that it has more than doubled it’s birth weight.
At this first milestone it is time to take a step back and review the past. Here are the posts that are my personal favorites of each of the six months this blog has existed. Read more »
I’ll have the honor of hosting SurgeXperiences again on May 11th. SurgeXperiences is a biweekly blog carnival that rounds up the best of the surgical department of the medical blogosphere.
Hosting after the outstanding job Sid Schwab did, will surely be, as we say in Norway, like jumping after Wirkola, but a little challenge is always nice.
Unlike last time, I thought I’d go for a themed edition this time around. And the theme will be: Tools of the trade. Nuff said. The rest is up to you.
Please submit your posts by May 9th here.
Photo © Roy McMahon/Corbis
The twentieth edition of SurgeXperiences - the one and only surgical blog carnival - is up at one of the most successful and well-written surgical blogs of them all, Sid Schwab’s Surgeonsblog.
He’s actually accompanied every submitted post with a limerick of it’s own. Here is his rhyme about my post Hand in gloves:
This article sends out the love
To surgeons who don double gloves.
It’s not that it’s dumb
But my hands feel numb;
I say “no” ‘less there’s cameras above.
Brilliant! And I’m hosting the next edition. Call for submissions will be up soon.
Another post of mine, Paean to the pean, is featured in a carnival I’ve never heard of before. It’s called Cabinet of Curiosities, and the current edition is hosted by the blog Bioephemera. According to carnival founder Tim it’s:
(…) the blog carnival that celebrates the stories behind the notable stuff that clutters up our lives and living spaces, and most especially those oddities of natural history, relics of bygone days, mementos, talismans, specimens and ephemera that you and I have kept for all these years.
Nice carnival. Check it out!
Many people find interest in surgery to be incomprehensible and even a bit bizarre, referring to the diseases and inevitable memento mori the subject implies.
Lately I’ve been asking myself the question: Would I be as interested in surgery and anatomy if I wasn’t so detached from these implications myself? Read more »
Several studies have shown that wearing two pairs of surgical gloves offer more protection against perforations than single gloving. Wearing a pair of colored indicator gloves as inner gloves makes it much easier to detect glove perforation during surgery.
But it’s for entirely different reasons I like surgeons who double glove.
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I recently got a question via the contact form concerning the recording of speech in the OR. As this may be interesting to others I here post the question and my answer. Please don’t hesitate to ask me about anything related to medical or surgical videography. I’m more than happy to share my “expertise” (for what it’s worth). Read more »
Edition 119 of SurgeXperiences - the one and only (I think) surgical blog carnival - is up at Marianas Eye.
I don’t know if it’s a sterile eye, but it nonetheless belongs to eye surgeon David Khorram, a native of Saipan, and a guy with a great sense of humor. The comments to his edition of surgeXperiences are very funny. Here’s what he said about my post “Yo mammae”:
“I was filming a nipple reconstruction…” Thus begins a “Tale of Two… ” um, no, I’m not going to say it… thus begins a tale by Norwegian surgical videographer, The Sterile Eye, who presents Yo mammae! That sentence is sure to become a classic in medical blogging literature. I give Sterile Eye the “Call me Ishmael” Award (which I just created) for week’s best opening sentence of a Carnival post.
You should also check out his thoughts on irritated eyes. Great stuff!
Edition 120 will be hosted by none other than Dr Sid Schwab of Surgeonsblog, on April 27.
SurgeXperiences archive and schedule can be found here. Please consider hosting an edition.
