The OT really isn't as cool as it looks. Sure its freezing cold *haha*, but having spent an afternoon observing a hernia repair - it gets pretty boring and it really kills your legs. the highlight however was somewhat worth it, i got to touch someones bowels which had the consistency of kuay chap. a little gross, but it speaks to the little boy inside. mhm mhm.
anyway, imagine standing still for a period of 4 to 5 hours, teasing layer after layer of fascia in a slow methodical fashion, making the incisions around the operative site, then slowing closing the incision.
this all happens while blood is still spurting from the wound! *yuck*
surgery, quite patently isn't me.
Ou yang: Mostly described as a 3 year A old kid turning 24 in september. Only slightly eccentric, he dreams of becoming a Power Rangers toy doll. (only the luminous pink collectors edition model will do!) When he has tired of his toy doll persona, the idealist in him takes over - revealing the vocal humanist with a certain predilection for social *biology*. His interests include photography, academia and philosophy.
Ambition? To be the best damn doctor he can be.
hey!! haha. wait till u see a stapler hemarrhoidectomy. blood. did i mention blood.
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lol. apparently it gets even better at ortho posting where the blood *spurts*
ReplyDeleteanyway... free horror movie tickets. though *grin*
i was reading this interview with some film director and apparently, in horror movies, the fake blood is usually darker and more viscous then real blood to make it look like "real blood" on screen. so we've been brought up on a steady diet of "pseudoblood" television and most people don't know what real traumatic bleeding looks like. in practice? the real world really doesn't look that freaky - but painful yeah?
as an example: zombies? heh. they look more freaky but no one stops to think they're in pain eh?
*ponders*
i think BKAs are the worst! wait for orthopaedics! puddles and pools on the floor. eeee.
ReplyDeletewhats a TURP??
ReplyDeletei figure BKA is below knee amputation.
-nat
TURPs is: *drumroooollls* transurethral resection of prostate...
ReplyDeleteouch!
hehehe