He's referring to residency training. They've cut back on that now. Not sure it makes for any better of a surgeon. They get less experience and you want that experience in the OR in the middle of the night with trauma or an acute abdomen.
...”They get less experience and you want that experience in the OR in the middle of the night with trauma or an acute abdomen.”...
Exactly. I’m only sitting here now, on FR, because said wife was called back in after being at the hospital since 6:30 this morning (she is on call all this weekend). I put lunch in front of her at about 1:30pm, she ate it in 5 minutes while talking to an OR nurse who was setting up, and went back. She will be doing a bowel resection all afternoon (free air), and likely will field many calls tonight as she is on ER call too. That’s when you get all the stars of the Knife and Gun Club, who are typically dirtballs and also don’t generally pay. At Reese, I had to take fresh clothes to her because she was covered with blood from a dirtball who was shot and needed his chest cracked in the trauma center. Not fun....
Its’ sort of like, “lather, rinse, repeat” around here sometimes. But, I’ve grown accustomed to it.