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Journal Article
Breaking the Silence of the Switch — Increasing Transparency about Trainee Participation in Surgery
2015
Overview
The details of residents' participation in surgery are often not disclosed to patients — an omission that sometimes necessitates overt deception. What if we openly discussed resident participation with patients instead of hiding our need to train future surgeons?
We stand and swap operating-room chairs, soundless in our socked feet. The room is silent as I run through the steps at the microscope: corneal incisions, viscoelastics, capsulorhexis — the tearing with forceps of a small circular hole in the anterior capsule to gain access to the lens. I breathe shallowly, trying to avoid making a sound with each inhale and exhale; the casual chit-chat common in operating rooms is conspicuously absent. I am relieved to hear the ding and musical crescendos of the phacoemulsification machine as it uses fluid and ultrasound to remove the cataract fragments. Silence returns as . . .
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Massachusetts Medical Society
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