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Date Posted: 08:16:35 06/27/09 Sat
Yes, they do use a cookie-cutter approach. The aides, most often younger staff members, often females, are minimally trained using a cookie-cutter approach. It' easier that way.
Every patient having surgery on a specific region of the body is a shaved over a broad area as defined in their training. So an abdominal prep, for example, requires one kind of shave. For surgery on the back, it's another broad
area, and likewise for lower limb and upper limb shaves.
Training is quicker that way.
They could, of course, customize each prep according to what exactly is being done in the surgery, but they don't.
The aides are not even in on what exactly will be done.
They also don't know the preferences of specific surgeons, and they are assigned randomly to their patients to prep.
I'm not defending any of this, just describing it. Paul is right. If the patient disagrees with what is being done and who is assigned to do it, he or she must speak up. It's
a fact, though, that vdery few ever do that.
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