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CHARLOTTE, NC – OR 4 at Mercy Hospital was moving “ahead of schedule” according to charge nurse Diane Cingler.  “Turns out we are getting out of here even sooner!”  The surgeon was disappointed he would be unable to perform his local/MAC carpel tunnel procedure.

“It was just going to be a little local at the site; the patient didn’t even need sedation,” Dr. Sasson said.

“It’s just too dangerous for a gassy patient to be in the OR.  You’re risking a dutch oven with those surgical drapes.  I don’t want that, the patient doesn’t want that, nobody wants that,” the anesthesiologist responded as he was lacing up his golf shoes in the parking lot.

“Methane airway fires are a real thing, especially during a MAC case.  I’m not taking that ri… Did you see that tee shot?!  WOW!!!”

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Lord Vincent Lockwell, a medival surgeon, started Gomerblog in 1388. He went for a walk in the alps to get away from the bubonic plague in what is now considered southren Germany when a tragic acident occured. The avalanche did not kill him but froze him for over 500 years. He was thawed and now continues to report on medical news.
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