Close to Home by John McPherson for August 02, 2024

Mr. Gerg feels so relieved after hearing that…because he just wet the bed. ;-)

Oh no, not the Diet Coke & Mentos enema again!!

Just what you need before surgery, nurses with a sick sense of humor.

So we know what we are doing. YouTubers are experts.

Well that certainly makes me feel better. Go ahead and cut!

I watched a YouTube video of cochlear implant surgery b4 my operation. Didn’t phase me. Now I can hear or be completely deaf when I want.

maybe he should have gone to a Tik Tok Doc

And the light hardly ever comes on when we play Operation.

AND they stayed at a Holiday Express® last night.

“But before we start your anesthesia, watch us do this TikTok dance, also one of the nurses juggles scalpels! It’ll be a hoot!”

Or, we did this surgery once just last year!

There used to be an old saw, back in the Nineteenth Century or so, among doctors about operations: “See one. Do one. Teach one.”

That was back before antibiotics (heck! even before the germ theory became accepted, thank you, Dr. Pasteur) when going from amputating a limb off one injured soldier on the battlefield to the next in the same bloodied gown was considered not only safe but efficient.

That reminded me of being wheeled down the hall to the operating room for my quadruple bypass, more than 20 years ago. The drugs they gave me before were very calming.

This is not standard operating procedure.

sadly, this really happened and the patient didn’t make it. 2017 in South Carolina

What a couple of cut-ups. But, hey, it’s not brain surgery… oh wait, yes it is.

And as we’re doing the procedure, we’ll have the video up and running,

When I had a surgery (elective/non-life-threatening) I was an absolute puddle. Probably the biggest nerve-bag they’d ever had. But I survived it…

It’s more disconcerting when they are watching the actual YouTube video as they perform the operation. “Shoot, now we have to wait for these ads.”

Bleeb. Find the release quickly and get him out of there before he finds out they were watching a Beavis and Butthead cartoon!!!!!!!! :)

We think that we’ve figured out what we did wrong last time. :)

Ha! Try to relax, we get paid no matter what the outcome.

Did they read the comments on that video?

youtube is amazing… I learned how to do open heart surgery!… (now I just gotta find someone who I can practice on… any takers out there??)

Sorry, my insurance doesn’t cover ad-free YouTube Premium.

“2 or 3 times”? Must be experts now

Which is it? Two….. or Three… times Makes a difference.