During a surgical operation, a young nurse participating in surgery for the first time said to the doctor as he was preparing to suture the incision:<\/p>\n
\u201cDoctor, there is still a piece of gauze left inside the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n
The elderly doctor replied decisively:<\/p>\n
\u201cI have already removed all the gauze. We can begin closing the wound.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, we can\u2019t,\u201d the nurse insisted. \u201cWe used twelve pieces of gauze, but only eleven have been taken out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor said sternly:<\/p>\n
\u201cI will take full responsibility. Close the wound.\u201d<\/p>\n
The nurse remained firm:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t do that, doctor. You must be responsible for the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that moment, the doctor smiled, opened his hand, and revealed the twelfth piece of gauze he had been holding. Then he said:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are officially my surgical assistant now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The doctor had tested the young nurse\u2019s integrity \u2014 and she had passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During a surgical operation, a young nurse participating in surgery for the first time said to the doctor as he was preparing to suture the incision: \u201cDoctor, there is still a piece of gauze left inside the patient.\u201d The elderly doctor replied decisively: \u201cI have already removed all the gauze. We can begin closing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n