Today I spent the afternoon in the Cath Lab with previously mentioned Superstar Cardiology Consultant. It was... clean and sterile... both calm and exciting at the same time... bloody, but full of finesse. How incredible it is to be able to feed a wire up an artery in the wrist and, literally in seconds, be at the blood vessels feeding the heart -- pumping away on the TV screen in front of you. A few minutes later you inject the dye to see where the narrowing is -- the culprit for the chest pain, the heart attack. And then, again just few minutes later, a tiny fragile cylindrical metal stent measuring 2.75mm by 18mm makes its way to that very narrowing guided by nothing more than a thin wire ("Like a train on train-tracks") then, poof! Open. Beautiful. Amazing. Incredible. Blood flows, just as first created, just as it should. And the heart continues to beat, right in front of your eyes.
Today I spent the afternoon in the Cath Lab, and I remembered why I loved cardiology as a fourth year student.
There is such beauty in the heart.
I am haunted by the brain, but mesmerized by the heart. As it continues to pump, day in and day out. I am captivated. I am convinced. I am converted. There is such beauty in the heart.
Today was a good day. :)
2 comments:
cardiology or cardiothoracic surgery? ;)
and guess what omg i liked psych this year. i have un-crossed psych from my list. omg.
hahaha... psych, aye. what ward are you on? I LOVED 9B with Dr B. Waay better as a TI c.f. 4th year. Cardiothoracic surgery? Nah. I'm not *that* hard-core... lol
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