• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    It’s contagious. The ortho team call themselves the cowboys of the operating room. What’s worse is that Im at a university hospital, and so we get residents from all over the country/world. So you’ll see kids who grew up in New Hampshire essentially get bullied/peer-pressured into operating on people in cowboy boots.

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        Yeap, luckily my specialty isn’t taught at this university so nobody in my department grew up here. So even though we’re part of orthopedics and rehabilitation, I’m mostly kept isolated from the cowboy particles, and everybody here thinks it’s incredibly weird.

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          They are infectious though. I picked up “howdy” while living in the South. I’d never cosplay with a hat or boots, but I’ll hit everyone and their mother with a friendly howdy. Even though I’m now back in the frozen north where I belong.