The Australia-New Zealand Association of Hobby Surgeons strives to Build and Enhance Clinical Capability through home-based Surgical Interventions and Procedures.
Our broad-based synergistic training programs leverage clinical knowledge and practice to provide affordable surgical procedures to the Public.
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- Australian man does DIY Surgery after waiting years for Treatment
An electrician in Canberra, Australia says he grew so sick of waiting for hospital surgery that he took matters into his own hands, using a utility knife to cut out a painful grape-sized cyst on his hand.
The Canberra man had waited waited over two years for surgery on a grape-sized cyst on his wrist that had become increasingly painful and was affecting his work. The man had become desperate and made the potentially dangerous decision to perform DIY surgery. “I was booked-in as a public patient. That was two years ago,” he said. “The cyst was growing and getting more and more painful. I’m an electrician so I need to use my hands all the time. The lump became sore and I got sick of waiting.”
After waiting two years, Stephen had become more and more frustrated with the delay because the grape-sized growth was affecting his work. Even as the sole breadwinner for his family, he could not get a confirmed surgery date from the hospital. “I got sick of it,” he said. “I grabbed a Stanley knife, disinfected the blade and cut into my wrist. Then I squeezed and popped out the cyst. I put some antiseptic into the wound, put a bandaid over it and that was it.“
Three months after the hobbyist surgery, the electricin said the wound had completely healed and he was again able to use his hands without hinderance or pain.
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- COVID-19
When conducting home-based Surgical Interventions and Procedures, please ensure your observe the current COVID-19 Alerts and Protocols.
- CPD / CPE
Don’t forget to get your Continued Professional Development / Education points for 2019.
You have only two more months to undertake the surgical procedures to get the required numberr of points!
- Stress-Free Surgeon Training
The best way to train surgeons may be to remove the stress and make surgery a “hobby”. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal setting, 15 first-year medical students mastered microsurgical suturing and cutting skills in as little as five hour-long sessions!
Ioannis Pavlidis University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day to become surgeons, mastered microsurgical suturing and cutting skills in as little as five hour-long sessions.
“It appears that by removing external stress factors associated with the notoriously competitive and harsh lifestyle of surgery residencies, stress levels during inanimate surgical training plummet,” said Ioannis Pavlidis, Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor and director of the Computational Physiology Lab at UH. “In five short sessions these students learnt surgery for fun or as a hobby!”
- Australian Council of Professions
We have just become a prospective member of the Australian Council of Professions (“PA”), the Unifying Alliance of Professional Associations in Australia and the Thought Leaders advancing Professions, Professionals & Professionalism.
PA is an alliance of more than 20 professional associations that represents more than 420,000 Australian professionals including engineers, clinicians, veterinarians, computer professionals and accountants.
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