Shannon Proudfoot’s tweet about thunderous epiphanies later in life prompted a response about misunderstanding the meaning of the term surgical dressing. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Misunderstanding Surgical Dressing”
Getting back to that Twitter thread where people were confessing things they didn’t learn for a while when they were growing up.
One person said, I thought a medical dressing involved pouring salad dressing on a wound because I was once in the school nurse’s office and saw a bottle of Thousand Island in her fridge. It didn’t occur to me until years later that it was just her lunch, not a medical supply.
Boy, you didn’t want to put that down a cast. Right?
But you can understand how you get these ideas, and they’re fossilized in your head, and you just kind of go along. And you don’t have a reason to challenge them until much later, right? It’s not something you’re constantly revising.
Exactly.
