An operating theater, also known as an operating theatre, operating room (OR) or operating suite, is a facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out in a sterile environment. Historically, the term "operating theatre" referred to a non-sterile, tiered theater or amphitheater in which students and other spectators could watch surgeons perform surgery.
Operating theatres had a raised table or chair of some sort at the center for performing operations, and were surrounded by several rows of seats (operating theatres could be cramped or spacious) so students and other spectators could observe the case in progress. The surgeons wore street clothes with an apron to protect them from blood stains, and they operated bare-handed with unsterilized instruments and supplies (gut and silk sutures were sold as open strands with reusable, hand-threaded needles; packing gauze was made of sweepings from the floors of cotton mills). In contrast to today's concept of surgery as a profession that emphasizes cleanliness and conscientiousness, at the beginning of the 20th century the mark of a busy and successful surgeon was the profusion of blood and fluids on his clothes.
Oh what a disaster
Oh what a crime
To be lost in yourself and not find a way out
So you drive and you drive…
with no hands on the wheel
You just wait for the sound of the crash…
as you fly through the windshield
Glass it litters the pavement
face down now you scream
wont you pick me up
will you pick me up…
or please…just call a morgue and send in a hearse
cause I don’t even think I’ll make it through the night…
is all that I need…just to see the light at the end of the tunnel
still I don’t even know why the operator is in the operating room!
Red flashing lights paint the streets as the sirens grow louder
My heart stopped beating or so it seemed my lungs collapsed…inside of my chest
Hallways of white flashing by as I think of to myself…is this heaven is this hell?
But which would I prefer? Is this heaven is this hell….or is this all a dream?
Calling all cars…calling all cars
Send me an ambulance anything anyone…oxygen is depleted…
I’ve been defeated
Falling apart and this wasn’t an accident
Falling apart and this wasn’t an accident
(calling all cars….to the scene of the accident)