33. That’s Not Gonna Work
We had a doctor some time ago who was performing an emergency craniotomy. Someone had broken their skull pretty badly, but I don’t know the circumstances. He was operating and a piece of the skull fell on the floor. Well, that’s not sterile, so he can’t put it back, but he still wants to. My supervisor gets a call about placing the skull piece in the autoclave.
The autoclave is a 270-degree steam sterilizer. My supervisor had to resist making jokes and we contacted the right people who could tell this very stubborn surgeon that we don’t steam human body parts.