Ontological Futurgical

Ontological choreography is not only sociological and psychological, but also situational. Medical students and surgeons practice the ontological choreography bases on their social environment that medical students usually prepare themselves through the laboratory, and surgeons prepare themselves through the operating room. Medical students and surgeons need to be able to shift from objectification to cadavers or patients’ personhood, or from personhood to objectification; those shifting is psychological. Also, medical students and surgeons are able to shifting from objectification and personhood base on the situation. Dr. Anna Wilson described a hand surgery she had before, that the patient insisted to use local anesthetic instead of general