Human behavior in operating rooms parallels primate patterns of hierarchy and gender

[Judi Lynn]

July 2, 2018, Emory University

A team led by a researcher who customarily studies nonhuman primate behavior has found that humans working in operating rooms (ORs) follow the same general primate patterns of hierarchy and gender.

Their results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper titled "Ethological Observations of Social Behavior in the Operating Room."

In a project they term 'operating room primatology,' the researchers used ethological observation methods to record all social interactions within teams in three ORs during 200 surgical procedures. Previous studies of behavior in health care teams have mostly relied on questionnaires, rather than records of actual behavior.

Ethology is the study of humans and other species from an evolutionary perspective, and ethological observations are live recordings of everything that happens in a group over a certain time period.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-behavior-rooms-parallels-primate.html#jCp

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Interesting study.

every surgery I've had included a male Dr. and two to three female attendee nurses. Everything went fine.