By: Pamela Fayerman
Reflections:
Medical officials are telling doctors to skip the chit chat and not upset patients. Since the playoffs are right around the corner and Canucks are the favorites and there is a lot of hockey chit chat happening in the surgical room. So the college of physicians and surgeons of B.C advised B.C's 11,000 doctors that talking about stuff other than the surgical task at hand is unprofessional and inappropriate and may upset some patients. This all started when the college received a complaint from a patient that his doctor was talking about hockey with the scrubs nurse. The patient had not been given an anesthetic so he was awake the whole time and heard the entire conversation. In the complaint it was written that there was hockey talk through out the surgery and it made him feel uncomfortable because he thought that the doctor could get distracted and make a mistake. The college registrar Dr. Heidi Oetter said in an interview that the surgery was successful and that this is a useful reminder for doctors and surgeons to be discreet not only in the operating room but anywhere they could be heard talking to an associate about something non-medical. Also Oetter added that some doctors create small talk to relax the patient and it is routine for the doctor to also relax but since this is a patient centered environment doctors should focus on the patients and see what they are comfortable with.
I personally feel that it all depends on the patient. As Dr. Oetter pointed out that this is a patient-centered system so the doctors should comply with what the patient is comfortable with. There are patients who will come in and might ask you who is winning the hockey game? So I believe that doctors do this to comfort patients. I would personally prefer a confident doctor who is bonding with me getting to know and doing the surgery meaning he is a professional, he has been doing this for a long time, and that I can trust him. On the other hand if a doctor shows up and is all serious and saying all these scientific words, that will make me a little bit uncomfortable and I would be frighten that my situation is serious. So for me I personally like the calm,and cool doctors
This issue effects us Canadians because it frightens us of the fact we don't know what the surgeons are doing when they do give us anesthetics. Those going in surgeries have a doubt that is the surgeons going to talk about hockey are they gonna be on the task and if something doesn't go right is this to blame? So a new fear has been created that are the doctors going to be on task or not, how much do they focus on there patients, and its just a matter of time since someone is hurt cause of them not being on task.
I don't believe that the media favors anybody. Because the concern was that the patient thought that the surgeon might get distracted and not be able to perform to the best of his ability, so the patients concern was brought up but the doctors explained why they talk about other things put on music in the background. They use these tools to relax themselves and their patient and actually they might do a better job.
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