student and offered him a chair. the student sat down wondering at the steel nerve of this anesthetist in the face of such a tense situation.
then an alarm went off on the monitor. the student jumped up to get out of the way as his senior finally moved to see what was happening. but all he did was to turn the alarm off and sit down again. and so the student sat there with him, too nervous to speak and wondered what was going on.
after quite some time the intense concentration of the surgeon was broken. he turned to the anesthetist.
"how are things going up there?" he asked and then 