Surgery!

Yes! And about time too! Finally after 3 years at medical school this week I finally got to go into surgery and have some fun! Surgeons are definitely very different to medics. The doctors in medicine are all very touchy feely and they take ages chattings about how patients feel etc! Then you see a surgeon and they're very much more clipped and economical with their time! Some of the ward rounds when I was doing endocrine medicine took 4 hours! The surgery ones take about 30 mins sometimes!

Being in theatre is awesome! If you want to get close to the patient you have to 'scrub up'. This basically involves washing your hands lots and then putting on a pair of gloves without touching the outsides of them (harder than it sounds) and also putting on a gown over your scrubs! It all looks a bit crazy when you're doing it and kind of funny (especially if you're crap at it like me). On my first day in surgery I saw some general surgery which comprised 3 operations, each one fixing some hernias. A hernia is when a bit of bowel accidentally pokes through the abdominal wall or some other bit of fascia and makes a big bulge. So, rather simply, the surgeon has to just poke the bit of bowel back through the hole it came through and then sew up the hole!

Surgery seems to be simple then hey?