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When I was in medical school, I broke my finger playing basketball. I allowed the x-ray tech students to do my imaging. I haven’t needed any health care since then. If I needed surgery, I would be comfortable letting a resident intubate me. I would also be comfortable with a surgical resident doing the procedure, provided I trusted the attending physician that was supervising them.When my son needed surgery, I hand picked the anesthesiologist as well as the surgeon. I would have been comfortable with any students observing, but I’m not sure that I would have let a resident practice on him. This is hypocritical of me. When I was a resident, the son of one of our surgeons needed surgery. The surgeon/father didn’t know me. He made sure I had a good pediatric anesthesiology attending supervising me, but he was comfortable with me intubating his son. I should be more like him.

Just a wild guess. I wonder if you really want a mediator or an advocate. Both are OK, but the process and the objectives are very different. A mediator gets parties together, people who disagree, and helps them find some common ground, some compromise. I used to mediate sessions for divorcing couples who couldn’t agree on a parenting plan for the kids.That kind of mediation for person who is also a therapy client would clearly constitute a multiple relationship, though I can’t necessarily say it would be a harmful one. Maybe.I wouldn’t want to do it. I want to be your therapist, and I want anybody you bring in to sign on as a “therapeutic ally.” There are actually consent forms, and procedures for that. Maybe, if you one of your objectives was learning to compromise, you could bring in “other people” for supervised practice, but I’d tend to resist it.Part of being a mediator is utter neutrality about outcomes. I don’t know how to be “utterly neutral” about my clients.

Hm. Is it legal for a doctor who has never assisted any surgery during his many years of training to cut you open with no supervision whatsoever as soon as he graduates? Because that is literally what you are advocating. Think about it. SMHHow do you suppose surgeons learn how to operate? Hint: not from reading books and watching YouTube.Do you want surgeons to graduate with zero skills or training? Just curious.You are significantly…no, SIGNIFICANTLY safer with physicians in training in the OR. You are at an academic center with a surgeon who is skilled enough to teach the best and brightest, being helped by the smartest young adults in the world. They observe his every move. They assist when having only two hands is a bit of a disadvantage. They are allowed to do only things that are appropriate and within their capacity to perform.Would you prefer a surgeon who maybe would not want prying eyes to watch his every move? If I were a shitty surgeon, I would never let these kids watch me work. And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those DARN KIDS!I would feel more confident with a teaching surgeon. Just sayin.Yes, I assisted surgeries as a medical student. I did minor things like suctioning blood, or using the intestinal staple gun. I never did the key vital parts of the surgery. I did not go on to surgical residency, but typically you are allowed greater responsibility as your skill set grows, and you are rarely unsupervised. In fact, I don’t even think they allow unsupervised any more. But a scheduled surgery is never unsupervised.Typically, there is a surgical consent form but it will not list all the persons in the OR because it is not typically known who is on call or on rotation so the student is often different from one day to the next. The names of everyone will be documented in the chart. You do not choose your nursing staff, any surgical assistant, medical student, or resident.