Working in an operating room for the last five years, I've seen some pretty disgusting things: a ten pound hairball removed from a woman's stomach, a 2-ft long worm from a man's thigh, a blown out penis. So I'm not exactly sure where today's events would fall on a top ten list but it would be up there. The patient was having liposuction and the nurse apparently hooked something up wrong. I don't think suction canisters have a self-destruct mode (it doesn't seem practical) but something caused this one to explode when it got full. If you've seen the video of a bunch of idiots stuffing a crapload of dynamite into a beached whale carcass, it was like that on a small scale. It took two hours to clean the room while the patient was still asleep on the table for the second part of her surgery. They had to bring in ladders to clean up the fat globules that were dripping off the ceiling. The floor was still slippery like it had a thin film of Crisco covering it. After a while it started to smell. It was awful.

Today I also found out blood letting is still practiced (sans leeches). This was localized blood letting via needle as treatment for priapism or persistent erection. Somebody remind me when I get old to take those Cialis warnings seriously. I also heard a report of somebody "literally sweating bullets" but I don't know if that's a medical problem or something different altogether.