me myself and I
By some freak accident of scheduling, combined with a resident illness, there are no residents scheduled on the labor and delivery service today. Which means that it is I, the lone medical student, who will be holding down the fort until 5pm. There is an attending here, of course. But their job is usually to swoop in and deliver the reassuring diagnosis and official plan. It is the underlings who do the paperwork and the collecting of data and the running around. Underling, thy name is Fiona.
The fun starts momentarily when I get to be the first (and only??) assistant on a C-section of an extremely obese lady. "Did you eat today?" My attending said. "Eat. You will be working hard."
How did the c-section go? Last night the Discovery Channel (Health) had a show called "200 Pound Tumor" on the program "Super Surgery." You can guess what the show was about. Surgeons removed the tumor over the course about 20 hrs and had to infuse 40 (forty) pints of blood!
I just came across your blog thanks to SDN. By far my favorite blog (medical or otherwise!) Keep up the interesting posts!
No offence , n with full Respect for medicine field but really it gets sometimes boring ,worse, more boring , any ideas of coping up iwth it , look even i can t splell right.. , well tried almost everything.