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Archive > February, 2012 Vol. XIII, No. 2

Amazed & Amused

The Power of Personification

Karyn Buxman, RN, MSN, CSP, CPAE

Is it crazy to converse with malfunctioning instruments or to talk to the body parts or organs that you're trying to remove? Not at all. It simply means that you're using humor to effectively manage your stress. In "Confessions of a Surgeon" (Berkley Books), Paul A. Ruggieri, MD, talks about his experience trying to remove a particularly belligerent colon with a faulty colon stapling device.

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