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Do doctors and nurses chat while performing surgery? If so, what do they talk about aside from the surgery itself?

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Do doctors and nurses chat while performing surgery? If so, what do they talk about aside from the surgery itself?
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I don’t smile much, but Thank you for it. Unless it was serious trauma we were quite vocal. I went in to circulate for a nurse going to dinner. Before he left I circled the field to see that all was well. The monitor was flat with an anesthesiologist at the head. Could it have been a monitor lead patch fell off? If you’ve felt a dead person you know. I brought it to the docs attention promptly. Then there was no small talk or chit chat. We were doing an ORIF and the Ortho doc brought a tv in the or to watch the Super Bowl. Half of them can do it in their sleep. It’s been a good while since then and I still call the or to hear a good name. All my docs are gone. After years you get used to day surgery and need trauma for the challenge. I first assisted on so many cases. They now make the big $