title: The operating room as a theater--a relevant metaphor.
abstract: Any metaphor can be stretched to absurdity. Nonetheless, the operating room as a theater can be a relevant and useful analogy. In the OR theater, the play is always a drama, sometimes a tragedy, occasionally even a comedy of errors, but never, never is it a Broadway musical.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Del Bueno
mesh_terms: D004324:Drama; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D009871:Operating Room Nursing; D009873:Operating Rooms