Getting closer

Inpatient medicine was interesting. I was too impressed with docs' desire/ability to teach but they were very knowledgeable and pretty nice. I felt like an idiot coming out of that rotation so I set up my last rotation for IP med at a different hospital.

This rotation, my second to last, is in orthopedics. Last week was boring because my PA preceptor was out on vacation so his surgeon and a fellow had me follow them around. In surgery I did little more than watch and close. Oh and on my first day in the middle of a long surgery I went to sit on a rolling stool and missed. I crashed to the floor on my ass. No one really missed a beat though. They asked me if I was OK and the the surgeon informed that I was no longer sterile. Duh. The surgeon takes care of a major league sports team which is kind of interesting I guess. I am not involved in any of that but the surgeon and his fellow are. I use to consider myself somewhat a jock, as it were, but these guys live it and work it. It is weird to see grown men so interested in a sports team that they don't even play on. Furthermore, the fellow, who has completed residency and is now doing a year in sub-specialty ortho had never removed an ingrown toenail!? These surgeons (now and in previous rotations) do such a wimpy H&P it makes me laugh. They don't even own stethoscopes!

Some folks love surgery, but I think I need more medicine to be happy. Plus standing around in an OR all day telling lame jokes or going over stupid music or history trivia is not my idea of fun. Even if I do get to drive the scopes.