Electronic Device

[unkemptmiso]

Besides your phones, does anyone here have a device they like to keep on them in the OR? Obviously, only used at quiet times and not allowing for a significant distraction.

Thinking iPad vs iPad mini vs laptop etc. Wanted something portable and not engrossing. Enough to day trade and maybe browse WSJ once in a while.

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[coffeebythelake]

Besides your phones, does anyone here have a device they like to keep on them in the OR? Obviously, only used at quiet times and not allowing for a significant distraction.

Thinking iPad vs iPad mini vs laptop etc. Wanted something portable and not engrossing. Enough to day trade and maybe browse WSJ once in a while.

No and no. Daytrading and other nonclinical activities will reflect very badly on you during a deposition.

 

[PpfSuxTube]

Daytradin will reflect very badly on you during a deposition.

When else are you supposed to trade?

 

[zizzer]

My MacBook Pro is very slim and easily fits in my bag.

 

[pocafx]

Ear buds. Every once in a while I’ll slip one in when the surgeon can’t find ass from a donkey.

 

[TheLoneWolf]

Worked with a guy who would bring in his huge Alienware laptop, took up all of the counterspace on his machine, and would play solitare. Like you couldn't even ignore it if you passed by.

 

[Bertelman]

No and no. Daytrading and other nonclinical activities will reflect very badly on you during a deposition.

My solution? Don’t let the patient die.

No depositions.

 

[nimbus]

Worked with a guy who would bring in his huge Alienware laptop, took up all of the counterspace on his machine, and would play solitare. Like you couldn't even ignore it if you passed by.

Alienware for solitaire…what a waste.

 

[woopedazz]

I bring in a laptop for email/work purposes. A colleague has an enormous rig with fans blaring at high speed playing Total War games. He's terrible at flanking with cavalry, I find it very off-putting.

 

[unkemptmiso]

My MacBook Pro is very slim and easily fits in my bag

Anything else useful that you typically keep in your OR bag? Been thinking of getting a dedicated bag too recently.

 

[zizzer]

Anything else useful that you typically keep in your OR bag? Been thinking of getting a dedicated bag too recently.

Folder for documents, stethoscope, butterfly US, a book, peripheral nerve stimulator, mini stapler, protein bars, vasopressors, poems, and Sharpie are my usual things

EDIT: I mean pens... to write the heartfelt poems

 

[TheLoneWolf]

Anything else useful that you typically keep in your OR bag? Been thinking of getting a dedicated bag too recently.

Stethoscope, protein bars, phone charger and backup battery pack, tylenol/advil, gum, books.

 

[Dr. Rude]

No and no. Daytrading and other nonclinical activities will reflect very badly on you during a deposition.

How about porn? We actually did have a locum CRNA watching porn on his phone during a case. At least it was "normal" porn. I suppose that is something.

 

[msk86]

Kindle

 

[coffeebythelake]

Folder for documents, stethoscope, butterfly US, a book, peripheral nerve stimulator, mini stapler, protein bars, vasopressors, poems, and Sharpie are my usual things

Most important question: were they your poems that you wrote from the bottom of your heart?

 

[PainDrain]

On a med school anesthesia rotation one of the docs I was following was day trading like crazy and even bought a plane while I was sitting in a case with him. It was very odd.

 

[coffeebythelake]

On a med school anesthesia rotation one of the docs I was following was day trading like crazy and even bought a plane while I was sitting in a case with him. It was very odd.

We had a couple guys that locums do this daytrading stuff.. They were terrible anesthesiologists.

 

[Dr. Rude]

We had a couple guys that locums do this daytrading stuff.. They were terrible anesthesiologists.

If they were good at daytrading, I suspect that they wouldn’t be working as anesthesiologists.

 

[coffeebythelake]

If they were good at daytrading, I suspect that they wouldn’t be working as anesthesiologists.

So terrible at both..

 

[Bertelman]

On a med school anesthesia rotation one of the docs I was following was day trading like crazy and even bought a plane while I was sitting in a case with him. It was very odd.

No surprise you chose anesthesia.

 

[PainDrain]

No surprise you chose anesthesia.

I should have listened to the neurosurgeon who was leaving at 3pm to fly his plane to his house on Nantucket.

 

[jwk]

How about porn? We actually did have a locum CRNA watching porn on his phone during a case. At least it was "normal" porn. I suppose that is something.

Normal for whom?

 

[AKMD_1984]

I’d bring my laptop to the room for zoom meetings or conferences for medical staff

I’d notify the surgeon too

Put it on mute

 

[Dr. Rude]

Normal for whom?

Adult heteronormative types. (I speak woke)

 

[IlDestriero]

I have a MacBook pro with the keyboard cover thing, but I don’t take it in the OR. It’s pretty powerful.
I’m really paranoid about doing stuff like that in the OR. Bad things happen, and when someone can show you weren’t paying attention, it’s now your fault, at least that’s what they’ll argue, complete with your posts, texts, trading log, etc. even if it’s not.

 

[geauxg8rs]

I like to bring in my NES and play duck hunt

 

[jwk]

I like to bring in my NES and play duck hunt

Yeah but when the surgeon takes his turn to shoot it really slows down the case.

 

[GassYous]

Yeah but when the surgeon takes his turn to shoot it really slows down the case.

That's because some of them lack hand eye coordination