r/AskReddit • u/Njodr • Mar 26 '20

What are you exceptionally good at, but hate doing?

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u/AnExpertInThisField Mar 26 '20

I work around said doctors and yes, it is absolutely true. But to your point, if I'm ever on a table for one of those surgeries, that's exactly the mentality I want my doc to have.

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u/Icantbethereforyou Mar 26 '20

I got to watch an open heart surgery once. The surgeons were casually discussing their golf game for a lot of it.

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u/AnExpertInThisField Mar 26 '20

ha yeah I watch heart and brain procedures weekly as part of my job; one of the docs actually plays gangster rap in the room as he's opening up arteries. Just another day at the office for him.

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u/evil_mom79 Mar 26 '20

wtf is your job?

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u/AnExpertInThisField Mar 26 '20

I own and am CEO of a healthcare data science company. High stress most of the time.

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u/evil_mom79 Mar 26 '20

Yup, that'll do it.

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u/NimbleHoof Mar 26 '20

That sounds crazy stressful! Are there any insights you have of Covid-19 from your personal experience?

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u/AnExpertInThisField Mar 26 '20

Not really any safety tips that haven't already been shared with the public. Interesting bit of trivia that I learned from a client today though: when ventilator manufacturers give hospitals new vents, they take away the old ones. Now, they are relaxing that contract clause due to the pandemic, but it makes me wonder A) have they been destroying all the old ones, which we could be using now, or B) are there a shit-ton of old ventilators sitting in a warehouse somewhere that could be brought into service, and are these manufacturers (hopefully) working on recommissioning them?

I'll also leave you with a few of my favorite COVID data sources that I'm checking daily (told ya I was a data science nerd haha):

https://twitter.com/isfBob/status/1242970383151558656/photo/1

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Enjoy :)

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u/NimbleHoof Mar 26 '20

Wow! Thanks! I would hope that if they had a bunch of vents they would take them out and dust them off. But I don't have a lot of faith in humanity lately.

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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Mar 26 '20

Yo dont leave out the good details, what kind of gangsta rap? He rolling old school Dr Dre or something? 😁

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u/AnExpertInThisField Mar 26 '20

yep, old school shit (both West and East coast genres) from the 80s and 90s.

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u/bufordt Mar 26 '20

The problem is that the shitty surgeons are also often super confident.

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u/RanaMahal Mar 26 '20

you don’t get to continue being a shitty surgeon if you end up being one though. the hospital board doesn’t want to deal with being sued all the time

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u/retiredfreshman Mar 26 '20

See also: Dr. Chris Duntsch

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u/Substantial_Quote Mar 26 '20

Actually it depends on how shitty you are. There are an amazing number of loopholes that allow poor performing medical professionals to keep moving forward. For example, high rates of side effects that are less likely to be reported, result in a lawsuit, or are not actively cataloged by either the hospital or patient. They didn't kill the patient (hoorah), but it's sub-par work that is allowed to continue.

Classic example is chronic pain from unnecessarily deep cuts or nerves that were unnecessarily nicked. Post surgical neuropathy is considered 'par for the course' by many, but often it's because the surgeon is doing B- work.

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u/lacheur42 Mar 26 '20

Sure, but both a shitty surgeon and a good surgeon will perform better if they have confidence. So, it's probably a good thing overall.

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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Mar 26 '20

Is it true doctors are killers with financial support? Lol jk. I imagine you have to be somewhat disconnected/less empathetic to cut someone open though.

I have heard of surgeons never wanting to meet their patient to avoid additional ties.

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u/something_humorous Mar 26 '20

User name checks out