another month has passed???!!
geez, time FLIES. seriously, i can't believe i haven't posted in so long! yesterday i went to a free outdoors Vanessa Williams concert at our central "green" area. We waited from 4pm for an 8:30pm concert. it was sooo packed by 7pm. it was really good! she's still pretty, despite getting older. i wonder how they do security at these outdoor concerts. nobody did any bag checks, and there weren't even that many police/security people around! scary! but it was nice to bring food, camera and blankets in.
two weeks have gone by on my surgery rotation. my crazy M-F schedule consists of waking up at 4:30am, getting to the hospital at 5am, and then:
5-6am: see my pts and write medical notes on them
6-7am: morning team rounds (everyone reports on their pts to everyone else, and we "tour" the hospital floor together and see each pt together)
7-8am: morning lectures; either Grand Rounds (with all the surgeon docs), teaching sessions, journal club, etc.
8am-2pm: Operating Room (i'm doing surgical oncology, so we do tumor removals)
2-3pm: lunch =P
3-4:30pm: afternoon student lectures (just for medical students on surgical topics)
5-6pm: see the pts i helped operate on in the morning, catch up on pts i saw in the morning
6-7pm: afternoon/evening team rounds (same thing as morning team rounds)
then it's home, dinner, study for the next day's surgical case so i won't be more lost than i already am in the OR, and bed by 10pm.
you may be thinking...uh, 5am-7pm 14h days 5 days a week? believe it or not, it goes by pretty darn fast. i feel like i'm there only 8h! so much to see and learn. so far i've seen gall bladders/colon/ovaries/appendix taken out (not all at once), gastric bypass surgery, reconnecting colon, pancreatic cancer surgery (8h straight), breast cancer surgery (some with implants), tumors near the heart taken out, and other stuff i can't remember! i still want to see pediatric surgery (hernia repairs, appendectomies), gastric cancer surgery, liver surgery, and hysterectomy. i still have 2 weeks left so i'm sure i'll get a chance!
so all in all, i really like surgery. i love the variety in each day, from working together and learning/braingstorming as a team, to the close pt interactions (the first time i stuck my hand into a pt's guts i was surprised at how warm it was--i had "forgotten" that we're operating now on real people who will recover and live life as before, not on cadavers!), to seeing pts in clinic for pre-op and post-op followups, everything!! long-ass hours, but highest pay, and definitely rewarding as you make an pretty "immediate" change in a person's outcome (taking out a tumor or inflammed appendeix) that you can see pretty quickly. and to put our hands in another's body--that's pretty unique i must say. quite a bit of trust in there.
ok enuf said, time to get some exercise and play badminton!! =)
two weeks have gone by on my surgery rotation. my crazy M-F schedule consists of waking up at 4:30am, getting to the hospital at 5am, and then:
5-6am: see my pts and write medical notes on them
6-7am: morning team rounds (everyone reports on their pts to everyone else, and we "tour" the hospital floor together and see each pt together)
7-8am: morning lectures; either Grand Rounds (with all the surgeon docs), teaching sessions, journal club, etc.
8am-2pm: Operating Room (i'm doing surgical oncology, so we do tumor removals)
2-3pm: lunch =P
3-4:30pm: afternoon student lectures (just for medical students on surgical topics)
5-6pm: see the pts i helped operate on in the morning, catch up on pts i saw in the morning
6-7pm: afternoon/evening team rounds (same thing as morning team rounds)
then it's home, dinner, study for the next day's surgical case so i won't be more lost than i already am in the OR, and bed by 10pm.
you may be thinking...uh, 5am-7pm 14h days 5 days a week? believe it or not, it goes by pretty darn fast. i feel like i'm there only 8h! so much to see and learn. so far i've seen gall bladders/colon/ovaries/appendix taken out (not all at once), gastric bypass surgery, reconnecting colon, pancreatic cancer surgery (8h straight), breast cancer surgery (some with implants), tumors near the heart taken out, and other stuff i can't remember! i still want to see pediatric surgery (hernia repairs, appendectomies), gastric cancer surgery, liver surgery, and hysterectomy. i still have 2 weeks left so i'm sure i'll get a chance!
so all in all, i really like surgery. i love the variety in each day, from working together and learning/braingstorming as a team, to the close pt interactions (the first time i stuck my hand into a pt's guts i was surprised at how warm it was--i had "forgotten" that we're operating now on real people who will recover and live life as before, not on cadavers!), to seeing pts in clinic for pre-op and post-op followups, everything!! long-ass hours, but highest pay, and definitely rewarding as you make an pretty "immediate" change in a person's outcome (taking out a tumor or inflammed appendeix) that you can see pretty quickly. and to put our hands in another's body--that's pretty unique i must say. quite a bit of trust in there.
ok enuf said, time to get some exercise and play badminton!! =)
posted by CookieMonster28 at 10:10 AM
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