Ortho: Lecture and Work

Jacob survived his first night of call with my former surgery team; last night he was in the OR until almost 11 pm because of two add-ons. Yikes. He thought my team was nice (and got along the best with BR, not surprisingly), but thought JB was a bit on the arrogant side the way he liked to pimp the students. I said JB was probably entitled to it since he's a chief, but Jacob said not all chiefs had to be that way. This morning in lecture, we had a doctor from the former Yugoslavia talk to us about being a doctor in the warzone in Kosovo. He had various pictures of war victims to share and also told us about using spatulas and spoons to retract at a time when he had to treat victims in a cave. Makes one really appreciate how the US has modern technology in the hospitals; I imagine not having a Bovie would be unthinkable to many surgeons. We had two quizzes in lecture today since we didn't take one last year, but because Dr. B was late we were in lecture until almost noon. That was fine; I knew I wouldn't be doing much at Dr. JD's clinic. Although, as Elizabeth pointed out today when we were chatting before class, it's probably a good thing Dr. JD doesn't talk much; it's better than getting yelled at and being told that you're s*** (or something equally miserable). We also found out where our family medicine rotations will be; I'll be at the JPS-based Polytechnic Community clinic. If anyone knows anything about this site (i.e. hours), let me know! But seeing how it's JPS, I'll probably have long hours.

I'm starting to see a very obvious trend with many of the patients with knee disorders: obesity. =/ There's going to be four surgeries scheduled tomorrow, among them another carpal tunnel release and an ACL repair. Time to brush up on my anatomy in case I get pimped...again.