I saw a woman die not too long ago. Her ECG slowly decreased in rhythm and eventually went flat. Her breathing slowed down to 10, then 8, then 4, and eventually 0. Her daughter started crying as her mother left for a better place. The nurse turned off the monitors.
After the daughter left the clinic [...]
Mar
30
My First Death
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Feb
27
Time Flies
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Wow, it’s been near 20 days since the last post but yet seems so much shorter. As if just wrote yesterday. The weather has gotten really really warm and resembling nothing even remotely close to winter. Temperatures are in the positives.
We started clinicals at the Children’s Hospital and finally we get to see patients…even examine [...]
Oct
19
This Year is Way Better
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It’s really hard getting back into the blogging thing after a whole summer of not doing it. But I’ll try. I’ve bought some cool new things and eventually I’ll show the world what’s happening. In the mean time, there’s lots of education to just eat up. This year is way way more medicine than last [...]
Mar
15
Another Hernia
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Yesterday I did my hospital shift. I attended the ending of a goiter (powiÄkszenie tarczycy). I then observed another ending of a bursectomy (wyciÄcie kaletki podĹźepkowej, or atleast I think thatâs what he said). Lastly I observed a full inguinal hernia (przepuklina udowa) on a middle aged man. It was cool. There was supposed to [...]
Feb
22
Operation #3
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I just witnessed assisted at an operation today! It was near the end of the day when an older woman was admitted with a right femoral hernia (przepuklina udowa). I went down to Blok 9, changed into the surgeonâs blue. Put on my hat and mask. Washed my hands like a germophobic man. Entered the [...]
Feb
10
Blok 9
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Today I was at a walk-in surgery clinic. I wanted to find out more about surgery and what not. The doctor there told me to go to the hospital and sign up in a surgery circle (group or something). So I went to the hospital and after much confusion and disorientation as to where places [...]