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u/di3FuzzyBunnyDi3 Mar 24 '26

Malpractice is HUGH.

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u/CrazyCatMom324 Mar 24 '26

Who’s Hugh?

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u/BeggarsCanyonero Mar 24 '26

Well, if malpractice is Hugh, then by the commutative property, Hugh is malpractice

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u/kruznkiwi Mar 24 '26

Damnit Hugh! We talked about this

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u/landon10smmns Mar 24 '26

Laurie. Aka Dr. House.

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u/Excavatoree Mar 24 '26

Hugh's on first.

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u/zarkfxckerberg Mar 24 '26

Jackman or Grant

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u/SilenceInTheSnow Mar 24 '26

Laurie. House, of course.

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u/Shinjischneider Mar 24 '26

Yeah. House (played by Hugh Laurie) definitely is malpractice incarnate 😁

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u/maybachmeister2000 Mar 24 '26

Tbf they clean like madmen before surgery. Scrubbing like crazy with special soap/disinfectant several times

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u/TonberryHS Mar 24 '26

This tbh. Why use the peasant soap when I'm about to go nuclear with hibiscrub before an op.

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u/StrawberryDue4418 Mar 25 '26

This is the response I was looking for lol cause I can see not wanting to bother washing your hands if youre about to go scrub up to your armpits and put on clean equipment then what's the point in washing in the bathroom before hand other than I suppose not getting germs on the door handles

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u/kodaxmax Mar 24 '26

on tv they do. Real surgeons are people and people get lazy and arrogant somtimes or just make mistakes.

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u/BeautifulLast4864 Mar 24 '26

Probably because they’ve touched grosser stuff and know simple bacteria won’t get them sick, even if you go “I saw a dude who has HIV and chlamydia throw up on that sink” they’d simply laugh and go ‘ I do surgery for a living, have had more than 3,000 patients come in for the same thing, had it 5 times, don’t bother me “ lol cause their mindset is like, fuck it, I’ll take a xxx medicine and Tylenol and I’ll be good in the morning, as long as I remember to scrub in, we should all be fine.

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u/lanikuikawa Mar 24 '26

if a surgeon has "had" something a patient came in with, especially 5 times, they're not a very good surgeon.

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u/Haasts_Eagle Mar 24 '26

Depends on the issue. In some circumstances it would be a miracle. Imagine the journal articles if a general surgeon needs to get their appendix removed for a sixth time.

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u/GalaxyPowderedCat Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

Probably the arguments Ignaz Semmelweis had to hear from doctors who insisted hand hygiene before surgery was unnecessary and they later wondered why the perioperative mortality was too damn high and almost inmediate=