Sunday 20 December 2009

On surgical nutcases (and secret gas love)

I could not be more relieved that 2009 (academically, at least) is over. This term has been the hardest I've ever dealt with - not in academic content, but in emotional crapola. However, the two days immediately following the end of term made up for that (partially - family incidents aside).

20 hours of Ortho! It was my reward for surviving the term, and after the battle with Dr Granny, I needed it, and I oh-so-earned it. And it was immense.

7 cases
3 assists
1 solo washout & fragment removal (OH YESH!)
1 attempted intubation
1 failed intubation
17 minutes of bagging V-Tach guy
7 patients still alive when I left...

And Isecretlywanttobeananaesthetist - shush! Mainly cos I'm not 'attached' to a dept when I'm in theatres - I'm there on my day off, for fun, for extra experience. So I tend to wander into the gas room pre-op and the gas men (or mostly, darling ladies) adopt me, take me under their hugely knowledgable wings, and teach me. Last time, I got my first real cannulation and intubation, not to mention various induction stuff. This time, I got a ton of ECG teaching (super-great timing!), a masterclass in facemask seals, teaching on the treatment of V-tach, talked through central line insertions, epidurals, intubation (again)... I <3 Anaesthetists. Maybe I could certify in Ortho & Anaes...

Crazy repeated convo's everytime I met someone new (or not new - some of the surgeons remembered me!) - "So you're 4th year?"
"No, second."
"So why are you here?"
"It's the Christmas holidays"
"So why are you here?!"
"Um... I wanna be an Orthopod..?"
Clearly, volunteering to come in on a) your day off, b) a day when we are snowed in, and c) the morning after the Christmas party, makes you a nutcase. I can live with that - I got to touch the talus from inside a leg!

But now, I am off to marvel at sexy cars and contemplate which one my first surgical pay packet (oh, 6 years time, move faster!) will go towards....

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