I feel…

… like my legs are made of timber… sooo heavy. My brain is numb. My tummy is growling. Translated into: I am absolutely tired. Didn’t think theatre would last that long. Nine whole hours of being on my feet the whole day, observing, assisting, doing, yawning, humming during hysteroscopies, c-sections, mirena insertions bla di bla… [...]

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Ludwig

My posting for the month is still surgery: vascular and orthopaedics. for the past few days, I had been willing myself to wake up early since they start at 7.30am. I’d say my will wasn’t strong enough.
But today was different. I woke up early. I asked which theatre Mr C0urtney’s team will be using. They [...]

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Aesthetics

my last day.
hadn’t known that plastic surgery could be that dangerous. i mean, a danger to the surgeons doing it. 2 killed by dissatisfied patients (whom, i might add, could be on the nutty side).
simon and sylvia criteria for aesthetic surgery:
Bad combo
S – single
M – male
I – immature
O – over expectant
N – narcissistic
I can’t remember [...]

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Plastics

will be in for theatre this morning. my last one with the team. still feel like i don’t know anything though.
outpatient clinics yesterday: was asked to spell ‘dupuytren’, was told to identify a toy engine (that would be Thomas), was asked what a mallet finger is (good thing i read a bit before that), what [...]

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Plastic Surgery

am doing plastic surgery + dermatology now.
reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllyyyyyyyyyy busy.
up at 5 am. to hospital at 7. attachments:
-ward rounds
-theatre: hours of standing, being questioned, avoiding the few spurts of blood (haha.. Kai had blood spatters on his scrubs…), watching the consultant (the head of plastics) dance about in the theatre – he’s funny, nice…
-tutorials: great
till afternoon.
1 hour’s [...]

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Lady Voldemorte

DISPERSE!!
Was what the female surgeon barked to the few third meds waiting in the hallway. They looked at her in a mixture of surprise, amusement and a tad of annoyance. Well, maybe it was their fault, blocking the way. But she sounded so… Lord Voldemort-ish. Ordering her minions in that cold way… She’s like one [...]

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Breast

The breast clinic was quite… ok. Nothing much except the usual check for lumps. 5 new cancer cases were recorded that morning alone. I know that it’s a common thing, but it still came to me as a shock. Especially when I was with one of the patients when the doctor broke the news to [...]

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