Met a brain surgeon who said the hardest part of being a new surgeon is listening to your patient deteriorating before you as you perform the surgery. Especially kids.
To continue their careers they need to steel themselves from emotional attachment to the human speaking to them. Seems to be one of the hardest jobs in the medical profession. Happy to see this went so well.
It somewhat surprises me this isn't common practice. Isn't it a good idea to do for the institutions themselves? I'd imagine access to videos of surgeries would be excellent resources for the training of new surgeons.
I don't know how common it is, but it is done. For example after reading your comment I googled 'surgery videos' and
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/surgeryvideos.html
is the first result. I also know there are surgery recordings on youtube, I had already watched some there before.
I'm amazed that they allowed video recording of the surgery. When I tried to photograph the birth of my nephew, the doctors didn't allow it citing lawsuit concerns.
I'm a doctor.
Operating rooms have something like 10,000 times the allowed particulate matter compared to a foundry clean room.
Additionally in the theatre, there are two surfaces: clean and dirty.
Only scrubbed people are clean, and if they touch something dirty they're out.
Dirty people can't touch clean things.
However the clean people are technically only clean on their arms and between waist and neck.
So you will often have (in american theatres j have been in, but never at home in australia) dirty doctors touching clean doctors on the shoulder and having s chat with them.
havkng phones in theatre is not going to change the outcome of the procedure or make any material difference to wound healing or infection rates.
That makes sense. I would guess that a regular (not sterilized, bagged or what-not) touch screen device like a phone would be about as dirty as a unwashed hand. I suppose if that is handled as "dirty" there shouldn't be any additional problem.
