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OSE_1310_part3_Layout 1 10/7/13 10:33 AM Page 117 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR An Advice Column for OR Nurses Struggling with a workplace issue? "Dear Paula" is here to help. D ear Paula, Is there no hope for polite behavior in surgery? A recent incident in our OR concerning the use of four-letter words (one of them in particular) went beyond the reasonable ways of resolving conflicts and has me wondering where we draw the line on surgeonstaff interactions. What happened was: The doc was listening to his usual annoying music during a marathon day of cases. Several of the songs on his playlist repeated the four-letter word. The circulating nurse, who was offended by this, counted each time the word was used, then she actually wrote the surgeon up on an incident-andaccident form for discipline! I'm no fan of the songs or their foul language, but do you think she went too far? The doc has been doing cases in this OR for a number of years, and no one has ever complained about his choice of music before. — Rocked and Shocked D ear Rocked, I agree with the circulator that some music is distasteful. It makes my ears ring and leaves a metallic taste in my mouth, and it hardly seems like creative expression. But then, when I was growing up, my parents didn't see "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah," as poetry, either. This four-letter word is certainly more offensive than O C T O B E R 2013 | O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E 1 1 7

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