Surgery: Difference between revisions

A few years ago, I was an intern at this hospital, the name doesn't really matter, and I was called at 2 AM for "general surgery". They didn't give me much info on what I'd be helping on, just some vague remarks that didn't really explain anything. So, I got to the hospital, and got a few extra details, most of them were just unimportant technicalities. The one detail that did matter was this: I was going to help perform surgery on a patient with "perirectal abscess". For those of you that don't know, that means the surgery was going to be done in the immediate vicinity of the asshole. There was a pocket of pus that needed to be drained. Just my luck. Our entire crew was bemused.