Television shows and movies may give the wrong impression when they portray a surgeon in a silent room asking to be handed a scalpel as a single bead of sweat runs down their forehead.

In fact, they're just as likely to be gossiping or chatting about sports or the news, The Times reports.

Surgeons and their assistants argue, flirt, throw things across the room and poke fun at their patients while they are under the knife, research has revealed.

For the study a researcher from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, sat in on 200 operations and recorded more than 6,000 conversations.

Dr Laura Jones, a medical anthropologist who studies communication and team-building among operating staff, logged 6,348 conversations during surgical procedures in the US.

She sat in on the procedures to watch how surgeons and their assistants behave at work.

Medical staff were seen throwing rubbish across the room into the bin and celebrating when it went in, dancing to music, and rubbing each other's legs flirtatiously, according to the study.

One reportedly called an unconscious patient 'gigantic' and said they would need ten people to move her.

Dr Jones's study suggests status and 'ego' is a main cause of arguments in the theatre, and they are most likely to happen when high-ranking male surgeons try to exert their dominance.




http://medfort.com.ng/things-that-occurs-inside-the-operating-theatre/

They are Humans joor

it is true.some dokita receive calls and send whatsapp during surgery.and if anything bad happens,they coverup for each other...negligência