Day 1 of my surgical run -- AWESOME. We have a great team of junior doctors and students under some really cool consultant surgeons, so it looks like it'll be an enjoyable four-week attachment. Just getting used to be on a hospital ward again and re-mastering the skill of trying to be useful whilst not getting in the way (too much) of the busy nurses! LoL Had a pretty busy day with a ward round to start, saw a couple patients mid-day, then finished off with an afternoon in the Day Surgery Unit which was again, AWESOME. I think I'm finally beginning to get used to watching admin of local anaesthetic (I only cringe about three times now, as opposed to the kazillion previously!), plus I learnt how to scrub in today which was oodles and oodles of FUN. The myriad of scenes from Grey's Anatomy where Burke and McDreamy are chatting to each other while scrubbing up kept flashing through my mind. Hehehe... Although...
Surgical Reg: "Learning how to scrub up can be a pretty tricky process at the start, but after you do it a thousand times it becomes like second nature. The three most common mistakes medical students make when they're first starting out are 1.) not putting on their masks before they scrub up, 2.) not laying out their sterile gloves beforehand, and 3.) touching/whacking something not sterile while putting on their gown."
Me: "Hahaha... yeah..."
Surgical Reg: "You laugh now, but just wait. I'm totally serious. It'll be one of those things."
And what happens an hour later when I've scrubbed up and putting on my sterile gown?? I knock my arm on the big ol' surgical lights... which aren't sterile.
Needless to say, the surgical reg had a good chuckle.
Nuts. LoL.
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