By the end of the third week I had still not seen a good trauma come in. There was one girl who got shot in the leg, but it was nothing too exciting. I had one last chance to see something good. My last call was a Friday night before exam week, and I was [...]
Archive for May, 2008
About the second week of trauma surgery I realized that like every other rotation I have been on its pretty hit or miss depending on when your there. Unfortunately, it had mostly been a miss so far. Basically the way it works is there are 3 trauma teams that rotate nights on call. What call [...]
Med school like any other endeavorers journey comes to a pinnacle of intensity. It’s the summit of the mountain, the grand finale, the scene at the end of the movie where the bad guy and good guy have the big showdown. For me this was manifested as Trauma surgery. I thankfully had some idea of [...]
My first month of surgery was pretty easy, nothing compared to what would lay ahead. At Tulane we have to do one month of surgical electives that are two weeks each followed by a month in general surgery. We are offered about 10 different electives to choose from. I did my electives the first month [...]
