ob & gyn
So... after hearing all the horror stories about how malignant and bitchy and just plain awful ob & gyn was, I've found that it's not too bad. SO far, I've liked it better than surgery.
Gynecology was tolerable because it wasn't too busy. I can only stand so much surgery per week, so luckily we had a quiet 2 weeks. The residents are abrupt and classic sorority types, but ... whatever. I just smile and nod.
OB overnight call was actually really fun the first night, with 2 vaginal deliveries and a C-section in the middle of the night. I got no sleep at all but it was fun. The second call was 22 hours of boredom with 2 hours of action. I felt like I was slowly dying. Especially when I walked into the call room and found my chief sobbing on the phone with her ex-husband. Awk-ward!
Abortion clinic totally kills me. I was gonna cry when we were doing the surgical abortion today - just sucking out the fetus into a syringe like it were just blood or something and we weren't killing a human life. And then I mistakenly walked into the room where the resident was looking at the products of conception. She showed me the decapitated fetus with all it's little bones and I nearly vomited.
People have all sorts of views on abortion, but I personally did not sign up for medical school to kill babies for irresponsible people. It pisses me off that we have to take part in these procedures. Women are miscarrying and aborting babies with Down syndrome, and the woman next door is killing a healthy baby just because they forgot to use a condom. It's so hard not to judge those particular women. And I just gotta do it and write notes and pretend it's all okay because it's not PC otherwise. Dammit ppl, just get birth control.
But overall, this rotation has been better than I expected. Just gotta endure 4 more weeks and I will officially no longer be at the bottom of the totem pole.
Gynecology was tolerable because it wasn't too busy. I can only stand so much surgery per week, so luckily we had a quiet 2 weeks. The residents are abrupt and classic sorority types, but ... whatever. I just smile and nod.
OB overnight call was actually really fun the first night, with 2 vaginal deliveries and a C-section in the middle of the night. I got no sleep at all but it was fun. The second call was 22 hours of boredom with 2 hours of action. I felt like I was slowly dying. Especially when I walked into the call room and found my chief sobbing on the phone with her ex-husband. Awk-ward!
Abortion clinic totally kills me. I was gonna cry when we were doing the surgical abortion today - just sucking out the fetus into a syringe like it were just blood or something and we weren't killing a human life. And then I mistakenly walked into the room where the resident was looking at the products of conception. She showed me the decapitated fetus with all it's little bones and I nearly vomited.
People have all sorts of views on abortion, but I personally did not sign up for medical school to kill babies for irresponsible people. It pisses me off that we have to take part in these procedures. Women are miscarrying and aborting babies with Down syndrome, and the woman next door is killing a healthy baby just because they forgot to use a condom. It's so hard not to judge those particular women. And I just gotta do it and write notes and pretend it's all okay because it's not PC otherwise. Dammit ppl, just get birth control.
But overall, this rotation has been better than I expected. Just gotta endure 4 more weeks and I will officially no longer be at the bottom of the totem pole.