As he sat in his office at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, Monson reminisced about the long, difficult road to becoming the successful surgeon he is today. In the beginning, he didn’t even have access to proper tools, and his hands would reportedly shake every time he used a box cutter to make an incision or clipped off a bulging aneurysm with a rusty pair of wire cutters.
Nowadays, Monson has access to all the state-of-the-art equipment he needs, but he admits he occasionally gets nostalgic for the days when he was his own boss and didn’t have to concern himself with paperwork, professional licensing requirements, or remembering to wear a mask and gloves.“My first operating table was just a piece of plywood on a couple sawhorses next to my lawnmower,” said Monson while scrubbing in for a routine minimally invasive neuroendoscopy.
“There are times when I miss the bone dust on my work boots and the whirring of an old Craftsman band saw in my ears,” he added. “This place can feel a little sterile by comparison.”Monson remarked that just as hard as learning the ins and outs of the most complex organ in the body was learning to tune out the doubters and naysayers who did not approve of his devotion to amateur surgery.
“When I first started, I didn’t know the difference between this lobe or that hemisphere—I just saw this big pink lump of meat and thought there must be something interesting going on in there,” Monson said. “It goes to show anyone can teach themselves how to do this stuff. Of course, when you have a day job, you may get to work on something and then have to put it aside until the weekend, and when you finally come back to it, you’re staring at a pile of dead nervous tissues.
__apf__ Based on my experiences, this should not be an Onion article :-\\
Now that's funny.
Wow that's was cool....🤝🤝
Works with just about any specialty
Yeah, I know the feeling. I’m a pharmacist
🤣 I'm not a gynecologist but I'll take a look.
Is that splattered blood on his scrubs?
That Harvey Cushing fella weren’t so fortunate. Always dreamed of being a ballet dancer. But his pa says to him: ‘son, them gliomas aint gonna excise themselves.’
If it doesn't work out, he can always go work for CNN.
This is recycled
Me too, I became an ortho after learning that the head bone is connected to the neck bone...
I’m an amateur proctologist. Still have the dream of going pro.
I wonder what would Joey reacted to this DGlaucomflecken
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First rule of brain surgery, never say 'OOPS' out loud in the operating room.
knowing nuerologists and such i wouldnt put put it past them
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I've had a pretty good career as a volunteer breast cancer inspector. Detector? Don't know what it's called, but I bet I've saved a lot of lives those 5 times. Feels good to give something back to the universe
I read this as “Gynecologist”
Combined with silly putty carving, perfect.
hood cats in hiding
😂 Neurology and neurosurgery are different specializations. fernando doesn’t have the second one.
vasisht
Like anyone getting started with a new hobby, there were several times where he went, 'Oops, well, live n learn.'
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