Yet another rear shunting.....

It's St Patricks day and that only means one thing, beer. This only means two things: broken hands and the mandibles (jaws) that they land on. As a result both the orthopaedic and maxillofacial surgeons tend to have a busy weekend. The trick is to avoid creating another broken hand or jaw while two surgeons fight it out over who gets priority uasge of the emergency theatre.

We have a patient backlog due to 'backside ' problem. The orthopaedic team started a weekend that was filledwith fractures; power tools and the elbow grease to fix them . Sadly so did a local London resident. He managed to get a 30/5 cm dildo stuck up his colon and we were removed from the theatre so that the general surgeons could return his party toy via a trip into his abdomen.

On the up side an intravenous drug user without any veins was very helpfull today. When the house officer was unable to bleed him he simply obliged by sticking the needle ino his groin( femoral vein) and come up with the goods- if only every patient could be as kind.

I am sitting in the theatre coffe rooms awaiting my slot. Hopefully i can get busy before the next rubber item goes for a wander......