Tomorrow will be the end of the 6th week of my Surgery rotation, the halfway point. Time sure does fly. All in all, it's been good. Sure, I am getting up at a wholly demonic hour, and feel like a very old man every night- but the rotation has been interesting.
Since last Monday, I have been on the Trauma team again and therefore did not have to take on-call shifts this week. That all ends this Monday. The trauma bay has been unusually slow this week and the traumas that came in were not incredibly serious. I did get to suture some poor soul's head laceration which bore a striking resemblance to a large Mercedes-Benz logo. (if it were drawn by a Parkinson's patient)
Just like on TV, the ER was incredibly busy and there was "no room at the inn;" so I got to do my Betsy Ross impression right there in the hallway. I did a pretty good job and was feeling pretty proud of my handiwork- the resident came over and looked at the now handsomely-closed wound gave it her blessing. Yup, I was feeling pret-ty proud of myself...until.
Since I was suturing him in the hallway I used a basin to catch the fluid I used to irrigate his wound with and when I was done instead of taking the extra minute to go discard the bin full-o-stuff, I set in down on the floor next to the counter. Of course everyone knows that: basins full of urine, feces, vomit, or bloody-saline and betadine have mystical magnetic properties! During my cleaning up- I was throwing out all the supplies I used; and right before I was finished- I kicked the basin over and splilled it ceremoniously all over the floor! Dumbass! Lesson learned.
Basin: 1 Ego: 0
No longer an intern (The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/6/13)
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2 Comments:
I did get to suture some poor soul's head laceration which bore a striking resemblance to a large Mercedes-Benz logo. (if it were drawn by a Parkinson's patient)
Was that the shape of the lac before your intervention or are you demonstrating a desire to imitate Picasso?
Will you be keeping a running tally of your ego vs the implement of destruction of the week? Kind of like a deficit clock. :-)
The lac looked like that before any stitching heroics on my part. Thank you very much.
And no, a running tally would be far to tedious this was a glimpse into one day's battle.
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