The week had its ups and downs.
Highlights:
- Getting to create an ileostomy! I sutured and tied the intestinal mucosa (under supervision of course) successfully in a radial fashion. Super fun and satisfying.
- Attending bought us coffee. Multiple times.
- My team is generally very encouraging and teaches us everything and anything we can imagine about surgical topics and patient management
- Getting Sunday off
- The weather is warming up...briefly. Although it's super windy out.
- Helping acute patients get better through surgical intervention. I've also enjoyed family interactions.
- Not successfully closing a patient. The attending, who yells at nurses and residents alike in the OR, looked at my work and asked my resident condescendingly, "Does that look good to you?" And my resident said, "Well I think it's pretty well approximated," and the attending said, "It looks terrible. Cut it out and start over. If you tell the student it's good and it's not, then you're telling her the wrong thing. When I tell you to close, you better do it perfectly or I'll never trust you again to close." I felt awful and apologized to my resident profusely afterward. She quietly said, "No, it was my fault for not teaching you better." We re-did it, and it was perfect, and then attending said, "It looks okay" and then left the OR. These lessons are important for me to learn, because maybe the closing didn't look as good as we thought. Or, maybe the attending is just a nasty jerk and his kind of teaching is not necessary at all.
- Patients crumping in the ICU
- Working too many hours
- Not studying enough for the shelf exam this week
- Picking up the slack for the team because we have a weak link
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