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Many of the hospitals in Boston have surgeons so specialized that they're literally the only surgeon in the US that does their particular type of surgery. For
by cpfohl 11y ago
Many of the hospitals in Boston have surgeons so specialized that they're literally the only surgeon in the US that does their particular type of surgery.
For appendix removal, and trauma surgery, sure, your statement is correct. For brain surgery your statement is a bit ridiculous.
- mentat 11y agoThis wasn't the brain surgeon it was the anesthesiologist.
- cpfohl 11y agoOops. Missed that. Sorry
- joshAg 11y agoBut the problem wasn't finding a surgeon. It was finding an anesthesiologist, who from the story's own description, isn't extra specialised. Unless that person is on call, it sounds like someone screwed up the schedules by putting an anesthesiologist on a surgery that would take longer than they were still scheduled for.