This week...

This week has mainly been odds and ends. Cardio was a bit rubbish cos
it was all in tamil, so i spent most of my week roaming the other
Wards and operating theatres... I think i told you about monday
already. If not... It was boring.

On tuesday, i joined the orthopaedic team for their surgery list. This
was a good opportunity, cos we don't get much time on orthopaedics in
southampton. I saw a hip replacement, a repair of a broken elbow and
some other less interesting stuff.

On weds, i went to theatre again with the general surgery team. This
was a pretty great day. Alex and i watched a gastrectomy in the
morning, which took forever, but it was a pretty tricky procedure.
Then in the afternoon we were able to scrub again to assist on some
minor cases. We thought it was quite funny how the minor ops make the
film 'Saw' seem like 'Pride and prejudice' and they have one theatre
with two beds in. So one guy came in for a haemorrhoid removal and was
treated to a fountain of blood (literally like you'd find in hyde
park) coming out of half a foot... Tho i think he had other things on
his mind. Anyhoo.. We got scrubbed in and i helped removing a
sebatious cyst the size of a thimble from someones chest, sewing it up
afterwards. And alex helped remove part of someone's foot. (at one
point i heard 'oops sorry' from the other side of the room, but it was
all good... Was quite funny tho)

Today, i went to a rheumatic heart clinic... Basically murmur central.
There were some great slapyouintheface murmurs that said 'look at me,
i'm a murmur', but there were often some quiet ones lurking there too.
So it was a good chance to get used to taking in the bigger picture.

Now im currently on a semi sleeper bus on my way to kerala for the
weekend. Semi sleeper means that the chairs go back and the lights go
off, but the chances of them turning the tamil film off look slim!
Just lucky i've got a loud ipod and good headphones... Good night...