Anesthesiology elective at the VA: We're in the OR, and the next surgery is a bilateral breast augmentation...the patient is a male-to-female transgender currently on hormones.
Within the span of just one hour, the plastic surgeons give the patient some fabulous 330cc silicone breast implants (a C cup in non-medical speak). The patient had requested the 450cc implants (a D cup), but his/her anatomy didn't allow for implants of that size to be inserted. It was difficult enough getting the 330cc ones in.
[plastic surgery intern: Why don't you just make the incision bigger?
senior resident: Because then we wouldn't be plastic surgeons!]
As the surgeons are completing their closing sutures, various nurses and doctors keep sneaking into the OR to peek at the final product. A scrub tech gently squeezes one of the newly structured breasts to get a sense of the texture. Transferring the still-anesthetized patient onto the guerney, some of the staff note his/her hot pink panties; they peek underneath the panties to reveal a very well done gender reassignment genital surgery.
Imagine, the feds are actually footing the bill for this stuff! Who says the government doesn't take care of its veterans...
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