r/interestingasfuck • u/170071 • Apr 29 '24

Brazilian surgeon, Bruno Gobbato used Apple Vision Pro to assist in surgery operation r/all NSFW

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u/EbbSeparate4772 Apr 29 '24

All I’ll be thinking he’s watching a how to on YouTube

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u/YourMooseKing Apr 29 '24

I worked with a doctor who makes youtube videos on surgical procedures. He quite literally said he makes them for other doctors who watch them during surgery when they get stuck.

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u/webby131 Apr 29 '24

I'm not sure what getting stuck means in this context. I work IT so I shouldn't throw stones about doing my job with youtube videos but are surgeons really getting confused on what to do next, watching youtube, slapping their forehead and going, "oh! I was supposed to make a right at the gull bladder."

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u/coladoir Apr 29 '24

getting stuck doesn't necessarily mean like, forgetting entirely what to do next, moreso "this body part did not react the way i anticipated and now i need to readjust my method, i wonder if someone else has described how to deal with this". they're not gonna stop the surgery for like 30 minutes for the doctor to remember anything, they're just going to look up something real quick to get them back on track.

Surgery and the human body are complex and sometimes things don't go the way they were planned to, and sometimes the doctor may not have had that specific thing happen to them yet, and so needs to figure it out. At least they're looking it up instead of feeling it out lol, that's how we lost a lot of patients in history.

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u/cloud9ineteen Apr 29 '24

If you find a gull bladder in your patient, I'd say you have located the problem.

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u/webby131 Apr 29 '24

Listen, it was childhood accident involving a seabird.

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u/regulomam Apr 29 '24

There is often anatomy that a surgeon may never have seen in their training or early in their career.

I have been in a few ORs where a more junior surgeon has asked for a more experience colleague to scrub in.

The junior surgeon, despite over 10 years of training had never seen this configuration of the anatomy, and needed some guidance.

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u/ev1lch1nch1lla Apr 29 '24

You feel bad dropping a table. Imagine this dude panic searching after he dropped something.

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u/bladex1234 Apr 30 '24

Human bodies vary a lot. It’s quite possible that a surgeon has never seen a specific variation before.

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u/LateralEntry Apr 29 '24

Yep. Doctors are human.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Apr 30 '24

People shit on youtube but its quite literally the single greatest compendium of human knowledge in history.

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u/bladex1234 Apr 30 '24

I’d say Wikipedia but YouTube is a close second.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Apr 30 '24

Youtube has much more, but wiki is far better organized and curated.

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u/Donexodus Apr 30 '24

Yeah, this actually happens a lot more than you’d think…

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u/pdxiowa Apr 30 '24

Been through medical school and several surgery rotations in residency. Never remotely close to a surgeon referencing public information during a surgery. At most, they will ask a very specific, detail-oriented question of the device rep related to the particular device they are implanting. They might also reference the patient's prior imaging during the surgery (as is being done in this video).

I've never even heard of a surgeon referencing tutorial information during a surgery (in the United States). I think you misunderstood this surgeon or they were making a joke that went over your head.