This 100%.
So much more to the job, there’s no need to loiter in the OR with a manager for some delayed bariatric surgery.
We’re not dealing gloves and gowns- yet. Effective selling takes place outside the hospital long before cut time. Upsell for sure, but you shouldn’t be surprising a doc with a powered device he’s never had hands on.
Take your boss upstream to materials management and whip those dysfunctional dolts into compliance to lock out your competition at the gate. Those are the meetings my management gets stiff over, not useless introductions to bitchy charge nurses.