Name: 【TED】Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons (Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons)
Uploaded: 2014-07-13T04:51:17.000Z
Duration: 12 min 22 s
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You plan on coming back, getting undressed,

to how we organize ourselves and our lives,

and gives it a measure of predictability.

it's almost as if, with so many people doing so many things

it's almost like life is dealing you extra hands

You're never, there's just, juxtapositions are possible

that just aren't, you don't think they're going to happen.

And you never think you're going to be the guy

and, because you choose to go down one side or the other,

the rest of your life is changed forever.

And one night, I'm riding the uptown local train.

I get on. I tend to be a little bit vigilant

I'm not one of the people zoning out with headphones

a guy and a girl, and they're sitting next to each other,

and she's got her leg draped over his knee,

and they're doing -- they have this little contraption,

they're doing it left-handed and right-handed very quickly,

and then she'll hand the thing to him and he'll do it.

It's almost like they're practicing magic tricks.

And at the next stop, a guy gets on the car,

and he has this sort of visiting professor look to him.

and the rectangular file case and a laptop bag

and the tweed jacket with the leather patches,

in a blink of an eye, he kneels down in front of them,

"You know, listen, here's how you can do it. Look,

if you do this -- " and he takes the laces out of their hand,

and instantly, he starts tying these knots,

and even better than they were doing it, remarkably.

And it turns out they are medical students

on their way to a lecture about the latest

suturing techniques, and he's the guy giving the lecture.

So he starts to tell them, and he's like,

"No, this is very important here. You know,

going to be happening at the same time, it's going to be --

you're going to have all this information coming at you,

there's going to be organs getting in the way,

it's just very important that you be able to do these

beyond second nature, each hand, left hand, right hand,

you have to be able to do them without seeing your fingers."

I just got catapulted out of the subway car into a night

when I had been getting a ride in an ambulance

from the sidewalk where I had been stabbed

to the trauma room of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan,

As part of an initiation for three of their members,

and I happened to be the guy walking down Bleecker Street

when I was at Notre Dame, I was on the boxing team,

so I put my hands up right away, instinctively.

The guy on the right had a knife with a 10-inch blade,

and it went up and cut my inferior vena cava.

and everything, of course, on the way up,

and sunk it in up to the hilt in my neck,

and I managed to, by hitting that guy, to get a minute.

and the ambulance guys intubated me on the sidewalk

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【TED】Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons (Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons)

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