Guts

I was able to work in the operating room the other day, and could not resist taking a picture of myself in my get-up.  Every now and then we are asked to scope in the OR, usually when the patient is morbidly obese, or so sick, we know we would more than likely have to intubate.  In this case, the patient was having a hernia repair, and we were going to follow looking at her small bowel through an enterescope.  I was in OR heaven.  Briefly, we had a few minutes while we waited on another doctor.  Cue Erica, and her dumb questions... What's this?  Is that fat?  Can you show me stuff?  And the doctor whom I work with often, obliged, showing me the patients liver, appendix, small bowel, large bowel, and stomach.  Talk about better than a text book.  Seriously, it was incredibly fascinating and I will never forget it!

'The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.'~Hermann M. Biggs