Talk about joining a conversation half way through without bothering to find
out about the rest of it; that's exactly what I'm doing and I apologise.
To this point below, I ask this question. Is not the main reason for
operating on these people for pain relief? That it what I understood as an
anaesthetist and I now understand as an orthopedic SHO. I fully understand
Rowley's point but is the pain not an issue?
Andrew Curphey
Ortho SHO (dying to get back to A and E)
PS Is it a standard requirement of an orthopedic surgeon to be a complete
****hole, dismiss any juniors' questions, be totally incompetant at "man"
management, not have a clue about what the juniors problems are and be
totally patronising?
Folks may or may not answer that question, as they wish.
Career advice for consultants to give juniors; don't work in the rational,
friendly, questing world of A and E (or anesthesia) before surgery.
There, I feel better now, thank you!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowley Cottingham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Seniority of doctors
> #NOF with age>65 are excluded from TARN (hasn't been called MTOS for about
3 years; became UKTARN and is now
> just TARN) because they cock up all the data as their outcome is so much
worse. They are a dismal group to treat; they
> often don't want the operation and I have (in my days as anaesthetist)
heard many a distressed old lady asking to be
> allowed to die as they went to sleep. They know; many of them never left
hospital.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Rowley Cottingham
>
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