Forecast calls for
My resident let me finish sewing up the incision after a perineal carcinoma resection. (peri-anal. you got it).
He said "Ok, future emergency room doc, sew like the wind." For that is, as of now, my chosen future.
And I, seated between the woman's stirruped legs, gloved hands slowly pushing a needle through sliced unmentionables said, " it will probably be more like a gentle breeze."
I love the sound of "future emergency room doc." I am so proud of you!
PS call me sometime. What happened to our phone tag? I miss you.
Hey, what about OUR phone tag!!?? Play phone tag with me, Future Emergency Room Doctor, or "Doc!"
You owe me a call too! Tag tag tag!
Hi Fiona. Nice to see that you are bloging again. You kind of remind me of home (Portland) and of clinical medicine at the same time. I can't believe your not doing Path. Just kidding, excellent choice if I may say so.
I read this and it reminded me of your post about whether a physician is really needed to pronounce death:
"A rare brainstem condition, called a 'locked-in' state, is one in which a person is fully awake but completely paralyzed and unable to speak, able to communicate only via eye blinking."
Scary! It was written by Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon and the author of "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe"