even thought saturday mornings can be very lazy and lousy. sometimes. i try and make full use of it. which comes to my point: i went to the hospital today.

stuff i learned/did:

learned the technique of bronchoscopy/ what it looks like through the scope.

pulled out chest tubes. chest tubes are placed perioperatively to drain fluids from the chest. that was interesting. Dr V mentioned that you've got to hum a long hum while pulling out the tubes because you need to create the negative pressure inside so as to prevent bubbles, etc. but Dr V let me do the stuff. it was really cool.

talked about the plus and minuses of private practice vs hospital employment. Dr Cohen had very interesting points. i guess you need to make a choice at some point. Dr V made an intelligent point. he goes. so if i'm a plastic surgeon and want to do private practice i really need to work on people like michael jackson and the rest will follow. and then he goes, god forbid i ever have to do cardiology work on him.

figured out a gameplan for tomorrow. Dr V wants me to present a patient. i'm a little nervous but hey, this is how we learn right? so i'm probably going to present a patient who was operated for mitral valve repair. we'll see how it goes. i've been asked to go there tomorrow morning at 6:30

dr S was fun today too. saw a few chest x-rays. learned what it looks like if the central line snaps. but thank god, in that patient, it didn't. she has 7 other lines going anyway!

more tomorrow. yes i work 7 days a week. and i love it