GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — Doctors from Georgetown Hospital’s General Surgery department described senior finance major Sheila Barnhorn (MSB ’15) as “resting comfortably” on Monday following a two hour surgery to have her creative bone removed.

Anxious friends and family were relieved to hear the doctor’s announcement in the waiting room that the routine procedure had been performed without complications.

Barnhorn has her pulse taken following the procedure.

Barnhorn told reporters from her bedside that she chose to undergo the elective procedure fairly quickly after changing her major to finance over the summer and dropping her Film Studies minor.

While the bone is largely considered by medical professionals to be benign, under certain circumstances, which Barnhorn was deemed at risk for, the bone may cause constant irritation and a yearning to employ one’s artistic inventiveness and individuality.

“Many of my friends who were in a similar situation [as finance majors] thought now would be the appropriate time to have this procedure,” said Barnhorn.

Doctors at Georgetown hospital stressed the routine nature of the procedure.

“Obviously there are risks whenever you perform surgery,” said Surgeon Cindy Shinkseki. “But at this point in time the procedure has been fairly standardized. In fact, some may say its safer to go this route than keeping your creative bone.”

Physicians were also keen to note that they will not perform the surgery on patients until “a career path has fully established itself.”

Over the next few months Barnhorn, in conjunction with the McDonough School of Business, will be returning to have physical therapy to fill in the area left by creative bone with more “suitable” matter.

When asked what she intended to do with the bone given to her as a souvenir, Barnhorn replied that she planned to “file it somewhere logical.”