Things You Don't Want to Hear During Surgery


1.   "Better save that.  We'll need it for the autopsy."
2.   "Accept this sacrifice, oh, lord of darkness."
3.   "Damn! I can't read page 47 in this manual...it has blood all
      over it."
4.   "Rex!! Come back with that! Bad dog!"
5.   "Wait a minute! If this is his spleen, then what is that?"
6.   "Has anyone seen my watch."
7.   "Whoops!  Hey, has anyone ever survived 500ml of this stuff?"
8.   "Well then folks, this will be an experiment for us all."
9.   "OK, now take a picture from this angle.  This is truly a freak
      of nature."
10.  "That's cool! But can you make his leg twitch?"
11.  "Could you stop that thing from beating? It is throwing my
      concentration off."
12.  "Wow! This is harder than I thought. I wish I hadn't forgotten
      my glasses."
13.  "This patient has already had children, am I correct?"
14.  "Sterile, Shmerile. The floor's clean right?"
15.  "Don't worry. I think that's sharp enough."
16.  "You know, there is big money in kidneys. And this guy has got
      two of them."
17.  "Hand me that...No, not that one...the uh...that thingie."
18.  "Nice work sewing him up.  Anyone see where I left that scaple.

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