3278. Operating theatre
© Bruce Goodman 26 July 2025


Just as the surgeon asked the nurse to hand the sterilized operating scalpel the nurse tripped on the patient’s oxygen tube and plunged the scalpel into the breast of the surgeon.

Blood spurted everywhere. The anaesthetist was saturated in red and in a panic forgot to attended to the patient who suffocated. It was obvious too that the surgeon had succumbed. There were three others in the operating theatre; one was screaming and the other two were shell-shocked into silence.

“Cut” said the director. “Clean up this mess and we’ll do that again.”

The actor playing the surgeon didn’t move.

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