9-5?!?!?!?!

There is no nine to five in surgery..... and I honestly don't mind.... ;)
I started the day with a spine meeting at 7am this morning. The cases are incredebly interesting, so it is definetely worse getting up and seeing things! Later I got to attend pediatric neurosurgical rounds, it was quick, but still great to see some pediatric cases! And then I went to the private hospital. As long as no one cares I will always choose their theater over the public ones. The atmosphere is so much nicer and the teaching is a lot better as well.... I left around noon though to see patients in the preadmission clinic and show my face in the public hosptial again, but since there were only three patients to be seen this afternoon and the surgeries ahd started late this morning so that the case I really wanted to see was just about to start, I managed to get out of clinic and went back to the Theater.... That was at 1.30pm and now it is 8pm and that case is just finished and there are still two more to go.... I want to see the next case as well, but I believe I will probably not stay for the last one, but we'll see how things go. Dr. Teo constantly surprises me how quickly he can finish cases that seem to be major and incredebly long for any other surgeon.... and after all what's waiting outside the hospital - my room and an evening with me, myself and I... So I might as well stay here, see some cool things and enjoy the company..... And we get dinner for free, which is always a plus for a poor medical student.... ;)

Part II
Dinner was delicious.... And afterwards I managed to make the entire theater laugh at me... I got to catheterize my first real male patient (before it had only been dolls...)..... A real penis is way slippier and a lot harder to hold onto with all the glibbery stuff that has to go into the urethra to make the catherter slight in more smoothly.... And of course it being a first it took me a lot longer and everybody watching definetely got a kick out of it. The anesthesists comment in the end was: "Hey we all enjoyed it, even the patient.... ;)".....