I'm here! I haven't given up or died or killed anyone. It is actually getting better, I think. I never really though it would be this much work. You have some pre-made conceptions of your rotations, and have heard of others who have gone through it. But still, you never really know until you're living it.
So here's my day:
5:45 - wake up, shower, get ready and try do grab something to eat on the car
6:40 - be at the classroom before the annoyingly punctual surgeon closes the door
7:50 - go to whichever hospital I'm doing my morning clinical activities (this transfer ranges from about 1hr to 5 minutes if its a the university hospital)
8:30sh to 6pm -arrive at the hospital and enter as many surgeries I can.
-somewhere here run to eat something at the cafeteria-
If I'm on call that day I have to go to the hospital and stay there till the next morning, otherwise I'm free to go and have a good 6 hours of free time, which I basically spend studying, running errands and sleeping.
Currently my clinical activity is very relaxed. I'm at a nice hospital, which is kind of private, and everyone has been very polite and helpful. They have free cookies and coffee, and some nice and comfy chairs at the doctors lounge. Life is good there. We enter all the surgeries just to see, and to some we participate -by participate I really mean retract and try not to get in the way of the real docs-. They are not very strict with the hours, and the don't really demand anything from us. It's more up to us to have the initiative to ask our doubts, to study, go check on the patient etc. Have I mentioned they have free cookies? heh
I like to enter the surgeries, I though I wouldn't. It's just such a weird feeling to be opening up a person, a living person. It's one thing to see a dead body, to cut it and see the internal structures all grey-ish and putrid; and a whole other to see it alive. It's like this person trusts us enough to let us do this to her and pay for it. Geez! It's a weird feeling, I'm telling ya!
Anyway, I've got a ton of dirty scrubs that need to be washed and several chapters to read. I'll see you.
xo
Lola
PS: Oh, by the way. Scrubs rock!! They are the best clothes ever! I'm going to miss wearing them all day. It's like being in your pajamas. Besides, I look so damn good on them! hah
1 comment:
I'm quite glad you're surviving and allowing others to survive hehe. I request a pic of you in your scrubs so I can judge how cool you look. Best of luck, and it does seems it's for real. Pay attention you'll be my doctor... eye or skin doctor but whatever.
Luv ya.
PS. I need the info of a good and not very expensive eye doctor around here, my eyes are failing again. Suggestions?
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