A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theatre to settle their dispute outside, the daily Politika reported on Wednesday.
Surgeon Spasoje Radulovic was operating when his colleague Dragan Vukanic entered and made a remark that started a quarrel, said the anaesthesiologist on duty.
"At one moment Vukanic pulled the ear of the operating doctor, slapped him in the face and walked out," she said.
Radulovic followed and an all-out fight ensued, resulting in bruises, a split lip, loose teeth and a fractured finger.
The operation was completed successfully by the attending assistant doctor.
The Dane, the Swede, and the Norwegian were arguing about which country
was most advanced in medicine.
"Well, in our hospitals," the Dane bragged, "we had a lady who had lost
her arm. We put in a mechanical arm, and now it works just as if it was
her own!"
"Hah, that's nothing," said the Swede. "In our hospitals, we had a
person without a heart. We put in an artificial one, and now he is
running for the olympics!"
"Hahaha," said the Norwegian. "We had a person who had gotten his head
chopped off. We put on a cabbage, and now he is in the parliament!"
We revert to our true natures in zero seconds flat.
Except me of course always the urbane gentleman.