So this week, I was back in the OR. On my first day, I watched the beginnings of a unilateral nephrectomy. This was no ordinary procedure though. It was preformed with a robot. I asked the surgeon why they would use a robot, because of all the difficulty that they were having setting it up, and he told me that the procedure with the robot was minimally invasive, and that the hospital wanted to use minimally invasive techniques for the patients well being. I thought that the procedure was very interesting, although I had to leave in the middle of the procedure.
The next day, I was in the pediatric OR. Before attending the Academy, I wanted to be a pediatrician, so this was like a blast from the past for me. I watched the surgeon repair a perforated eardrum in a young child. I was glad that I went into this surgery, because it made me reconsider doing pediatric surgery again. I want to be a neurosurgeon, but now I am on the fence about it, so I think that having been in that surgery was a good thing.
On the third day, because of my experience in the operating room the other day, I went back to the pediatric section. I was able to get up close and personal as I watched the surgeon perform a tonsillectomy. I thought that the procedure was pretty interesting,and I found myself reconsidering neurosurgery once again. After watching the tonsillectomy, I watched a surgeon perform nasal surgery. Although the procedure itself wasn't interesting, how the surgeon did it was pretty cool. Unlike the other doctors at the hospital, he didn't use the computer screen when he used the scope. he just went right in and did what he had to do with a manual scope.
This week was filled with some pretty exciting procedures and some major revelations, so I cannot wait to see what is going to happen next week.
The next day, I was in the pediatric OR. Before attending the Academy, I wanted to be a pediatrician, so this was like a blast from the past for me. I watched the surgeon repair a perforated eardrum in a young child. I was glad that I went into this surgery, because it made me reconsider doing pediatric surgery again. I want to be a neurosurgeon, but now I am on the fence about it, so I think that having been in that surgery was a good thing.
On the third day, because of my experience in the operating room the other day, I went back to the pediatric section. I was able to get up close and personal as I watched the surgeon perform a tonsillectomy. I thought that the procedure was pretty interesting,and I found myself reconsidering neurosurgery once again. After watching the tonsillectomy, I watched a surgeon perform nasal surgery. Although the procedure itself wasn't interesting, how the surgeon did it was pretty cool. Unlike the other doctors at the hospital, he didn't use the computer screen when he used the scope. he just went right in and did what he had to do with a manual scope.
This week was filled with some pretty exciting procedures and some major revelations, so I cannot wait to see what is going to happen next week.