Comments on: Banning physician wristwatches? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ATRhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-112181 ATR Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:04:29 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-112181 I recently had the experience of anesthesia awareness (really) during major surgery because the CRNA let the sevo vaporizer run dry. It didn;t have an alarm. In recovery, after I stopped screaming, the CRNA admitted her mistake and blammed the lack of an alarm. I told her that I fly a plane with 5 fuel tanks and I use my $30 wristwatch to time them and they never run dry. I asked her why she didn't do the same and she told me that she used to, but she got yelled at for wearing an alarm watch in the o.r., the beeping was annoying to some. This was a good answer; it kept me from sending her to surgery. I recently had the experience of anesthesia awareness (really) during major surgery because the CRNA let the sevo vaporizer run dry. It didn;t have an alarm. In recovery, after I stopped screaming, the CRNA admitted her mistake and blammed the lack of an alarm. I told her that I fly a plane with 5 fuel tanks and I use my $30 wristwatch to time them and they never run dry. I asked her why she didn’t do the same and she told me that she used to, but she got yelled at for wearing an alarm watch in the o.r., the beeping was annoying to some. This was a good answer; it kept me from sending her to surgery.

]]> By: Joe Polaneczkyhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82615 Joe Polaneczky Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82615 Time to go back to the pocket watch? Time to go back to the pocket watch?

]]> By: DR. MARY JOHNSONhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82526 DR. MARY JOHNSON Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82526 In my travels as a Locums, I once covered a Board-certified Pediatrician who proclaimed that he could estimate temperatures within 0.1 degree by touch - the reason he did not have working thermometers in the office.<br/><br/>I honored my (thankfully short) commitment (insisting that they fix the thermometer), and moved on. In my travels as a Locums, I once covered a Board-certified Pediatrician who proclaimed that he could estimate temperatures within 0.1 degree by touch – the reason he did not have working thermometers in the office.

I honored my (thankfully short) commitment (insisting that they fix the thermometer), and moved on.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82510 Anonymous Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82510 A resurgence of the pocket watch. Who'd a thunk it? A resurgence of the pocket watch. Who’d a thunk it?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82509 Anonymous Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:07:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/banning-physician-wristwatches.html#comment-82509 Oh, Jesus H. Christ.<br/><br/>Just when you think it can't get any sillier, these morons come up with something that has me reaching for a calendar, to make certain it's not the first of April.<br/><br/>But, rather than actually cleaning the hospitals, washing bedsheets instead of flipping them (and how do they keep track of how many times they're flipped) and enforcing handwashing, they come up with this nonsense.<br/><br/>And where will all the machinery Mr. Shalley will be using come from? The same hospital that can't afford to light all the bulbs in the hallways? Wash the sheets? Where will the batteries for the devices come from?<br/><br/>And how soon will some religious group demand a waiver because they can't have bare limbs - especially on women? Oh, Jesus H. Christ.

Just when you think it can’t get any sillier, these morons come up with something that has me reaching for a calendar, to make certain it’s not the first of April.

But, rather than actually cleaning the hospitals, washing bedsheets instead of flipping them (and how do they keep track of how many times they’re flipped) and enforcing handwashing, they come up with this nonsense.

And where will all the machinery Mr. Shalley will be using come from? The same hospital that can’t afford to light all the bulbs in the hallways? Wash the sheets? Where will the batteries for the devices come from?

And how soon will some religious group demand a waiver because they can’t have bare limbs – especially on women?

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