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What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

beeinak said:
Most places disinfect them, then sterilize them. Some areas dispose of instruments which is an insane waste.
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I had my own autoclave in the office to sterilize my instruments and re-use them. When they became dull after a couple of years I was able to get trade-in credit towards new instruments. I mostly had to do stitches, foreign body removal, biopsies, and circumcisions in the office, and not that often.
 
DocJekl said:
I had my own autoclave in the office to sterilize my instruments and re-use them. When they became dull after a couple of years I was able to get trade-in credit towards new instruments. I mostly had to do stitches, foreign body removal, biopsies, and circumcisions in the office, and not that often.
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Couple years?
I wonder what the R was on scalpels, I bet they don't get as concerned with their steels as some of us knife nuts....lol

I've never cut off the tip of a weener before, but I did cut an umbilical cord once....
I was really surprised how tough and chewy it seemed? The cutting instrument barely went through it.
 
Hurrul said:
Do you take each scissor pair apart to sharpen?
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No need, the entire length of the edge was easily accessible just by holding them open. There was also a clipper blade to do.

After I finished all fifty some odd scissors and the clipper blade, I felt inspired by my earlier experiment, and ended up pulling an all-nighter. I made three knives. All MagnaCut. All different from each other, and from what I've made before. Different but similar. One is being given away in the giveaway section. It's going to be a flash giveaway with a limited number of entries, and it will close once the number of entries is reached. I'll post it before I sleep. Or maybe after. Keep you guessing 🤪
 
In 2015 I got provincial certification to be a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician, and was hired by Kingston General Hopsital. It was right around this time of year in fact. But the senior employee who had retired decided to come back after being away for nearly the max time her union contract allowed. In other words, she juiced the system, tricked the hospital into thinking she was gone so they would hire someone new, I spent I can't remember how many hundreds of dollars on the certification course, and took the greyhound bus a number of times for it (weekend course at St. Michael's hospital in Toronto, I lived in Kingston), and then when her extended "loophole vacation" was done, everybody move over, your lives don't matter.
 
My phone is charging now, so I can't take more pics yet (my cord is really fussy lately, and disconnects at the slightest touch) but here are pics from the shop until I can snap the finished knives.

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Crag the Brewer said:
Couple years?
I wonder what the R was on scalpels, I bet they don't get as concerned with their steels as some of us knife nuts....lol

I've never cut off the tip of a weener before, but I did cut an umbilical cord once....
I was really surprised how tough and chewy it seemed? The cutting instrument barely went through it.
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“Couple of years” was meant figuratively not literally. Sorry. And not everything would get dull except maybe the tip after a lot of suture snipping, etc. It also depended on the quality/price I was willing to suffer, as I started up my own medical practice and had to buy everything myself.
 
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