Well, not mine really!  Brian and I got a chance to go into the surgical theatres in the Princess Alexandra over the break, thanks to some help from a family friend of Lisa, Brian’s girlfriend.  It was a great experience for exposure to the environment and seeing some really neat things happening.  Brian was able to attend a bunch more than I, including two open heart procedures for bypasses.  The day I went, we saw first up a man with a diabetic foot amputation, of his left toes, second and third, having already had his big toe taken off earlier.  That was really neat, and we were more involved in that one than I expected.  After that, I went and saw some other procedures, including being involved in a bunch of Electro Convulsive Therapy sessions.  I didn’t know stuff like that was routine, but it was happening, so I was in there.  After the first one I took on the role of ventilator, which was kinda fun.  Then we moved on to an abdominal hernia, a gastric bleed and a shoulder repair/bone plating.  What a good experience, I am really looking forward to being able to do more.  The doctors were amazingly willing to chat, even though we knew practically nothing, and they showed us what was going on.

Tags: Medicine by David Graff
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