Half-year review
April 28, 2008 § 7 Comments
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 the rest of this entry »
SurgeXperiences – Tools of the trade
April 28, 2008 § 4 Comments
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
SurgeXperiences 120 & Cabinet of Curiosities
April 28, 2008 § Leave a comment
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!
Detachment
April 21, 2008 § 1 Comment
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 the rest of this entry »
Hand in gloves
April 17, 2008 § 9 Comments
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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Recording speech in the OR
April 12, 2008 § Leave a comment
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 post the question and my answer here. 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 the rest of this entry »
Check out SurgeXperiences 119
April 12, 2008 § Leave a comment
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.
Yo mammae
April 8, 2008 § 5 Comments
I was filming a nipple reconstruction. The last in a series of operations to reconstruct the right breast of a woman in her sixties. She’d had a mastectomy for breast cancer. This final operation would be the end of a long and winding treatment.
I had only filmed with this plastic surgeon (PS) once before. Then he’d complained about the senior surgeon’s music and demanded to play Metallica the next time they’d operate together. The nipple reconstruction was being done at the outpatient department. As I entered the small OR, PS was rummaging a drawer full of pink caps. “I have to find a green cap,” he said. “I can’t possibly appear on camera with a pink one!” « Read the rest of this entry »
Grand Rounds
April 8, 2008 § Leave a comment
Check out this weeks Grand Rounds – the best of the medical blogosphere – over at Dr. Wes.
As he’s a cardiologist, this week’s posts are neatly categorized by their appropriate cardiovascular term.
My post Diagnosis and aspiration is featured under the “Heartfelt” banner:
The Sterile Eye reflects on the gnosis of diagnosis by biopsy.
Don’t forget to visit the Grand Rounds archive and schedule.
Diagnosis and aspiration
April 4, 2008 § 3 Comments
diagnosis
1. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition.
2. the decision reached from such an examination.
gnosis
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.
The Sterile Eye 