Here in the healthcare field, our central role in the maintenance of the human body sometimes leaves us overlooking the non-medical specialists who keep other things running. Most of the time we don't think about these folks. Then we wake to find, for instance, that the electricity went off and the alarm clock didn't. (The phone still works, though: that's our boss on the line, wondering where the heck we are.) In our defense, I'm sure that those working in non-medical occupations don't spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the work that OR nurses do — that is, not until some part of their body falls off or quits working.