This is a bit of a follow up to my previous posting on my first surgery experience.
Having had the chance to really watch a surgery up close, it's finally clear to me why they take so long to recover from. We toss around expressions like "surgical precision" rather easily, but what a load of shit! Precise it ain't. Surgery is a very violent process, and even the most careful of surgeons is something like a bull in a china shop. When you think of the size of a scalpel in the context of the microscopic cellular world, it's a bit like using a demolition ball on a crane to remove the gate from a dainty white picket fence. What's more, it's easy to forget about all the things that have to be cut, pulled, tugged, torn, yanked, clamped and crushed out of the way just to get to the surgical target. Clamping sounds innocent enough, but when you really look at the clamp you realize a soft tissue is being squashed between the tiny steel teeth of a very powerful little device.
4 comments:
わかるぅ～！
アリス鉗子とかマジ痛そうだもんね。
でもね、しっかり挟まないとオペできないだよねー。
てか、ただ目の手術にしてはいっぱいやることあったんだ。。。
but what's so amazing about it is that the body is still able to recover from the assault. what you saw was probably not a major surgery by trauma standards. imagine someone recovering from a car crash and all the surgery required to fix them and the recovery that follows. that's why i love biology.
During the followup after my arm surgery, the doctor wanted to check my range of motion. At the time, it was about 10 degrees. The surgeon took my forearm and tried to contract it by force... like, really leaning into it.
I guess a lot of that surgical residency is about learning where to apply force and where to apply finesse. Have you watched them apply stitches yet?
Remember, surgeons are practicing physicians. Guess who or what they practice on....
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