Practicing medicine with stone knives and bearskins

February 28, 2007 at 6:17 pm | Posted in clerkships | Leave a comment

Ugh! Gynecological surgery. I nearly passed out watching a vaginal hysterectomy yesterday. I wanted to shake that (male) surgeon and say, “Dude! How would you like it if someone yanked on your testicles like that?!!” Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Linkfest

February 26, 2007 at 3:21 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I can’t sleep this evening, and I can’t seem to write anything worthwhile on my own blog, so I’ve been reading other people’s. This post and its comments were definitely a highlight of the evening.

Thinking out loud

February 13, 2007 at 4:53 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Occasionally, I save a post in draft form, to be posted later when the dust settles. There are several I’m still holding back from these last couple of years, but I’ve posted several others lately. While I was on hiatus, I was still blogging, just not posting. Mostly for my own benefit, so I could remember what I thought of various programs and events on the trail. I was going to post them after I matched, but now it seems they are destined to remain in draft form.

As for me, I’m finding the approach of Valentine’s Day unbelievably painful. Really too painful to discuss. There’s just this pervasive sense of wrongness about the situation, that’s totally unrelated to my own hurt. Free will is free will, though, and with it comes the freedom to make the wrong choice. Not a bad choice, but a wrong one. And there’s nothing I can do about it.

But life goes on, you know, and I still have to figure out where I’m going next year. And now there’s even more reason to leave. Staying here is simply more than I can take.

February 10, 2007 at 11:33 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I’ve been reading old posts tonight, and it seems that last March I was on quite a roll. Here’s the link for you curious people out there.
March 2006

SVD stakeout

February 9, 2007 at 10:50 pm | Posted in clerkships | Leave a comment

Today I almost got to see a vaginal delivery. I need to see two this month, which I’m sure won’t be a problem here in Gyneville–I mean, Pineville. But the patient in question had some cephalopelvic disproportion, and had to get a C-section instead. We sat around for several hours, just waiting for her to get close to delivery. She was in active labor for 15 hours before they finally decided, with no change in station for the last three, despite pitocin administration, and more than adequate contractions and pushing. So painful to watch. And then C-sections are never any fun either.

I can’t decide which method I’d prefer for childbirth. They both look barbaric. There’s got to be a better way to pass on my genes.

Well, I’m not really sure who’d want to have my genes, but that’s beside the point. If anyone actually asked that question before they had kids, we’d have a lot fewer humans on the planet. Not that I’m a fan of eugenics, or anything like that, but I have to admit it irritates me that there’s no parental competency test required before you’re allowed to procreate.

Ugh, I do not like Obstetrics. There’s just no finesse or elegance to it. Plus, people generally take better care of their hair than their privates, so there’s a limit to how appalling it can get to prep the scalp. There seems to be none regarding the pelvic region.

You know, I’m glad there are people who want to do OB/GYN, because we need them. But it’s definitely not my thing. Not to mention that childbirth itself isn’t looking so hot right about now. Maybe if I really love the guy, and once the flashbacks have stopped. Maybe.

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