If a doctor suddenly died while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient?
2007-03-27 14:25:16 · 12 answers · asked by Ram27 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
is dying or had a heart attack or something
2007-03-27 14:48:43 · update #1
sadly, unless its a patient of fame or importance, they will work on the doctor and leave the patient helpless...thing is if the doctor gets better he can help save lives of others later on and the patient proally will go back to his monotonous number punching job
2007-03-27 15:37:56 · answer #1 · answered by GHAAD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The patient would get up and help the doctors work on the dead doctor.
2007-03-27 22:11:55 · answer #2 · answered by The Man in the Yellow Hat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The doctor's working on the original patient would finish that job.
2007-03-27 21:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by prolite959 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the doctor was dead, theres not much that can be done besides dragging him to the morgue.
If he's just dying, then he would be rushed to the ER or shock trauma, while the surgeons (who wouldnt be able to help much anyway) would just continue the surgery.
2007-03-27 21:33:00 · answer #4 · answered by Bobby S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully the surgical team would call a "code blue" and a team would respond. There would be enough people to take care of both Dr. and patient.
2007-03-27 22:05:52 · answer #5 · answered by classic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
both... there's normally a team of doctors in a surgery, and they can easily divide themselves or call in additional help... but then again, why did the doctor "just die" during surgery?
2007-03-27 21:34:06 · answer #6 · answered by schatz101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The still live patient. The dead doc can wait.
2007-03-27 21:33:04 · answer #7 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.... if the doctor DIED - there wouldn't be a lot of point working on him/her.....
2007-03-27 21:34:22 · answer #8 · answered by EJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they would probably send the doctor to a noother emergency room to be worked on while the patient is being orerated on to..l......
2007-03-27 21:33:36 · answer #9 · answered by pigs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they would work on the one with the Health Insurance. A dead man WITH insurance gets priority over a live man WITHOUT insurance.
2007-03-27 21:42:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋