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What happens behind closed OR doors usually stays there. Unless we nurses bring it up in the staff lounge. Or at happy hour. Or in the pages of a magazine. Here's a list of the top 20 fibs, fabrications and falsehoods I've heard in the OR, as well as their translations for those of you who don't own an OR-to-English dictionary.
