The Whipple procedure during medical school was either the thing you couldn't believe you got to assist on, or the thing you couldn't believe you had to assist on.
For a surgery junkie, it's great. It's one of the most intense re-plumbing jobs commonly done. For those of us who just wanted to pass surgery and be done, it was an eight-hour torture session. On your feet, masked, capped, and gowned, holding some stupid retractor or another until the early evening.
"On the shore, beside the skidway, they kept a horse collar and a set of harnesses and a whipple tree and a chain." - 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod.
The Whipple procedure during medical school was either the thing you couldn't believe you got to assist on, or the thing you couldn't believe you had to assist on.
For a surgery junkie, it's great. It's one of the most intense re-plumbing jobs commonly done. For those of us who just wanted to pass surgery and be done, it was an eight-hour torture session. On your feet, masked, capped, and gowned, holding some stupid retractor or another until the early evening.
Also a medical procedure, See wikipedia
"On the shore, beside the skidway, they kept a horse collar and a set of harnesses and a whipple tree and a chain."
- 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod.