'It should never happen': Trainee surgeon posts operating theatre photos online
WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: A trainee surgeon is in hot water after she shared pictures of her first caesarean operation on social media.
Florencia Espinola also shared photos of her sharing a “birthday cake” with the new mum at the Hospital Evita Pueblo in the city of Berazategui in eastern Argentina’s Buenos Aires province.
The doctor posted pictures of fellow medics pouring liquids down the back of her neck in an initiation prank to mark her first operation.
But she ended up in trouble with hospital chiefs who said the medics should have all been concentrating on the mother and her new baby.
Ms Espinola shared the photos on Facebook with the comment: “This is how a happy birthday starts. Thanks to those who teach me every day.”
An unnamed surgeon told local media the initiation was a hospital tradition, explaining: “When a first-year resident doctor does their first surgery, a baptism is done.
“It can start in the surgery room, during the surgery, throwing serum to the neck, as is seen in the picture. The patient is not affected by this.
“The baptism continues after surgery. They are put in the room where they wash their hands and get wet. Eggs and flour are also thrown but outside the surgery room.”
Hospital director Karina Fiquepron said Ms Espinola and the more experienced medics in the operating theatre with her would face disciplinary action.
“It should never happen. We do not share those kind of practices, although we should be clear that the patient’s health was never at risk,” she said.
– Australscope
