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- Sep 28, 2021
I'm torn on whether I think she's truly a psychopath. Lots of surgeons have psychopathic traits, and I wouldn't be surprised if plastic surgeons had even more than the average surgeon. You sort of have to be detached, cold, and egotistical to cut up a person and rearrange bits.
The "blowhole" comment is actually what got me thinking about this. The fact that she said such a thing at all, much less directly to a patient who was scared and in pain, suggests to me that there's more to her than just opportunistic greed. I was absolutely astounded by how callous that comment was. It's something that you'd expect to hear from the most popular girl in junior high, not an adult woman. It was straight "mean girl" and given the context, it really felt like she was delighting in, or at least amused by, the suffering she had inflicted on a fellow human being. I actually find it quite chilling.
I wouldn't put too much into that... with many years in the healthcare field, there's a dark undercurrent of cruel and twisted humor throughout.
It sounds ABSOLUTELY AWFUL to those not initiated, but you see really awful things almost every day. Like, traumatic, horrifying things that someone unfamiliar with wouldn't forget for the rest of their lives after decades of therapy.
So, to deal with it, a lot of us say hideous jokes that for some reason make things a bit easier to deal with.