Well, here I am sitting in the Atlanta airport... mecca of travelers... boring layover prolonger of me... I've spent the night here... not today... it was around Christmas... I missed my connecting flight because of a snowstorm in detroit, and by the time I got here, my flight to florida had gone, and they weren't willing to meet me in a compromise for a hotel deal, so I spent the night in the airport. I wouldn't suggest doing that if you have small children (i've seen several parents do that though). If you pack appropriately (which is hard to do in the age where you can have 3 oz or less of liquids etc) you can totally pull this off though. However, you get in so late, its too late to buy toothpaste or other essentials. But let me tell you why I think its a good idea. You can get the first flight out in the morning, because you never had to recheck in, you dont' have to go through security again. No security line means while they're being hasselled to take off their shoes, you're bugging the person at the gate to put you on this plane!!! hollar! :) it works every time!
Anyway, you don't care about that.... what you care about is what I'm doing now, and why am I in Atlanta airport, I was last in the ER at Toledo hospital... sorry about that... its been busy...
So, I ended up falling in love with ER... couldn't you get that from the post? i had some ridiculous patients... Football testicles. filleted legs. multiple complaints "She's just depressed" oh wait, except that she had a positive cardiac exam about a month ago and no one followed up ... those are highlights of ER... i liked it. I was called the "student plastic surgeon" for my suture skills. I stayed over an hour or so every day to drain one more abscess or throw a few more sutures.
One of my favorite cases was this 28 year old guy who came in drunk who had fallen off a bike head first over the handlebars. He had several face lacerations and they were bleeding still. He was a little bit of a wimp and couldn't handle the blood well, but he was also trying to impress me and not be all "girly" about the blood. He was very metrosexual if you know what I mean, but definitely not into the guys. He took one look at the needle i was going to numb him up with and said "i need to sit up i'm going to throw up" the resident let him sit up and then said "i think we should come back later, he needs to calm down" and she left the room. we had been really busy, and I don't blame her for leaving, beause honestly, I think he was being a bit of a child as well, but if you freak out at needles you freak out. anyway, the rails were down on the bed, which looking back was the only mistake I see, but either way I stayed in the room. I had a feeling if he's going to puke he shouldn't be alone. I was talking to his friend about something when all of the sudden i felt the patient slump into my side. He had passed out! I was like omg! I yelled for the resident and then started shaking the patient to get him to wake up; we laid him back and rubbed his chest and he woke right back up, but it was definitely one of those events I ahdn't seen before. I was like omg! he totally passed out! The nurse then told me I had "done quite enough" and that i "should leave" and i was shooed out of the room. I hadn't done anythign wrong, and I almost started crying because if I hadn't been in the room he would have cracked his head on the floor. So the resident got pissed off and sent me back in the room and told the nurse off.. yay! and I sewed him up and he looked great... but i still like ER better than any type of general surgery subspecialty lol :)
anyway
after ER, I did 2 weeks of ortho in Columbus... I hated most of that... they were very mean to me there. There were a couple of residents who just took it out on me that I was a girl. I got smacked in the OR. And I got yelled at. I don't know what I did to deserve that. I guess I got delt to X chromosomes. I don't know if thats normal or not. At any rate, I wasn't happy there.
Then I went to philladelphia and took my PE. It didn't go very well, I'm really hoping I passed it. I really feel like that test was very difficult, and I know I misdiagnosed a couple of people. I'm just hoping that overall I did alright. We'll see.
Came back, and I moved out of my apartment in Toledo. I no longer have a place to call my own... except my car... lol :) woo hoo! I will now be on the road forever... here goes nothing right?
then I went to florida to visit my mom and study for the written boards... which i spent a good 2.5 weeks studying for, and I think went SUPER well.. so i'm really happy with that... i'll get all those scores at the end of november.
I also visited an ER program in miami MSMC.COM look at it... its on the BEACH! SOUTHBEACH! its freaking awesome. I can't post stuff about the clientel on here obviously, but if you ask me, i can tell you that the people who stay on the 8th floor of that hospital might also be in some of the magazines you read in the checkout at the grocery store... HOW COOL! but yeah, the program's amazing... it really is.. and the director, a lady from OUCOM! and her core site was Toledo, just like me! if the core system was a sorority we'd be sisters!
anyway, I just thought that was awesome... so I think she liked me and I loved it there, so I hope I go there..
and now, i'm flying back, to do 3 months of ortho and I"m not sure if my heart is in it anymore... we'll see...
I need a place to stay in cincinnati the last two weeks of nov/first two of dec if anyone knows of any ideas, i'd love you for it...
thanks!
Anyway, you don't care about that.... what you care about is what I'm doing now, and why am I in Atlanta airport, I was last in the ER at Toledo hospital... sorry about that... its been busy...
So, I ended up falling in love with ER... couldn't you get that from the post? i had some ridiculous patients... Football testicles. filleted legs. multiple complaints "She's just depressed" oh wait, except that she had a positive cardiac exam about a month ago and no one followed up ... those are highlights of ER... i liked it. I was called the "student plastic surgeon" for my suture skills. I stayed over an hour or so every day to drain one more abscess or throw a few more sutures.
One of my favorite cases was this 28 year old guy who came in drunk who had fallen off a bike head first over the handlebars. He had several face lacerations and they were bleeding still. He was a little bit of a wimp and couldn't handle the blood well, but he was also trying to impress me and not be all "girly" about the blood. He was very metrosexual if you know what I mean, but definitely not into the guys. He took one look at the needle i was going to numb him up with and said "i need to sit up i'm going to throw up" the resident let him sit up and then said "i think we should come back later, he needs to calm down" and she left the room. we had been really busy, and I don't blame her for leaving, beause honestly, I think he was being a bit of a child as well, but if you freak out at needles you freak out. anyway, the rails were down on the bed, which looking back was the only mistake I see, but either way I stayed in the room. I had a feeling if he's going to puke he shouldn't be alone. I was talking to his friend about something when all of the sudden i felt the patient slump into my side. He had passed out! I was like omg! I yelled for the resident and then started shaking the patient to get him to wake up; we laid him back and rubbed his chest and he woke right back up, but it was definitely one of those events I ahdn't seen before. I was like omg! he totally passed out! The nurse then told me I had "done quite enough" and that i "should leave" and i was shooed out of the room. I hadn't done anythign wrong, and I almost started crying because if I hadn't been in the room he would have cracked his head on the floor. So the resident got pissed off and sent me back in the room and told the nurse off.. yay! and I sewed him up and he looked great... but i still like ER better than any type of general surgery subspecialty lol :)
anyway
after ER, I did 2 weeks of ortho in Columbus... I hated most of that... they were very mean to me there. There were a couple of residents who just took it out on me that I was a girl. I got smacked in the OR. And I got yelled at. I don't know what I did to deserve that. I guess I got delt to X chromosomes. I don't know if thats normal or not. At any rate, I wasn't happy there.
Then I went to philladelphia and took my PE. It didn't go very well, I'm really hoping I passed it. I really feel like that test was very difficult, and I know I misdiagnosed a couple of people. I'm just hoping that overall I did alright. We'll see.
Came back, and I moved out of my apartment in Toledo. I no longer have a place to call my own... except my car... lol :) woo hoo! I will now be on the road forever... here goes nothing right?
then I went to florida to visit my mom and study for the written boards... which i spent a good 2.5 weeks studying for, and I think went SUPER well.. so i'm really happy with that... i'll get all those scores at the end of november.
I also visited an ER program in miami MSMC.COM look at it... its on the BEACH! SOUTHBEACH! its freaking awesome. I can't post stuff about the clientel on here obviously, but if you ask me, i can tell you that the people who stay on the 8th floor of that hospital might also be in some of the magazines you read in the checkout at the grocery store... HOW COOL! but yeah, the program's amazing... it really is.. and the director, a lady from OUCOM! and her core site was Toledo, just like me! if the core system was a sorority we'd be sisters!
anyway, I just thought that was awesome... so I think she liked me and I loved it there, so I hope I go there..
and now, i'm flying back, to do 3 months of ortho and I"m not sure if my heart is in it anymore... we'll see...
I need a place to stay in cincinnati the last two weeks of nov/first two of dec if anyone knows of any ideas, i'd love you for it...
thanks!
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