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No. 4431
>>4278
Correct. A few years ago I did some volunteer secretarial work for my father's neurosurgeon friend, and as a thank-you he let me scrub up and watch him performs surgeries for a day - BRAIN SURGERIES. Coolest thing I've ever seen. And they definitely used that tool at one point after drilling a hole in the skull to pull some stuff out. I watch chunks of skull and brain fluid flowing down the sheet draped over the head. Neato.
The coolest one was actually more of a neck surgery. They cut into the neck at the front, just to the left of the larynx, and pulled that and the esophagus to one side, and the veins and tissue to the other so that they could reach all the way back to the spine. There they inserted a piece of bone (cow, if I recall correctly) to correct the structure of her spine. The coolest part was for this one, before they sewed the patient up they let me walk right up to the patient and look at the spine and see the bone they'd inserted, inches from my face. Then they put all the neck stuff back in place and sewed her up.
Later that afternoon I went with the surgeon to check on the patients post-op, and being in scrubs (as well as having seen me pre-op with the surgeon) she believed me to be one of the doctors and thanked me. Even though I didn't actually contribute, it was really touching.
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