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I just finished my last day at the Baptist Hospital Cath Lab, and I'm going to copy Matt's format of expressing what I've learned:
1. People have a whole lot of blood inside them.
2. The smell of burning flesh is really, really gross.
3. Be careful what you wish for. I wanted to see a bypass surgery, so I went to see one, and almost passed out from the smell of burning flesh. I made a fool out of myself because I had to leave and sit down and get cool again, but I managed to pull myself together and go back in the room and watch the rest of the 2 1/2 hour surgery. I don't think I embarrased myself too bad, but I had been bragging about how I hadn't fainted in anything else I'd watched. Maybe the title of this point should be don't count your chickens before they hatch - I dunno.
4. Bypass surgeries are REALLY cool and REALLY gross.
5. Make sure the radiologist has seen a person's x-ray before you take them up for a heart cath and learn that their pain is from a collapsed lung and not from their heart and that you just performed a totally unnecessary heart cath. Sometimes a fast-moving hospital isn't a good thing, believe it or not.
6. Doctors are the coolest people on earth!!!!! I can't wait to be one.
That's the main gist of my summer - I've learned sooooo much about the heart and about cardiology and just medicine in general. I can tell you the difference between an av-sequential pacemaker and a biventricular pacemaker, as well as the difference between a pacemaker and a defibrillator. I now know all the major vessels in your body and what they look like and approximately how big they are. I know the coronary system like the back of my hand and all the nicknames for the different coronary arteries.
The point of all this is (if you're still reading and have no clue what I'm talking about), I have spent my summer being amazed at how creative and wonderful God is. How did he think all this mess up? The body is incredibly complex and beautiful, and I'm really, really looking forward to being able to help people take care of the temple that God gave them to worship Him in. Man, I can't wait to be a doctor!!!!!!
1. People have a whole lot of blood inside them.
2. The smell of burning flesh is really, really gross.
3. Be careful what you wish for. I wanted to see a bypass surgery, so I went to see one, and almost passed out from the smell of burning flesh. I made a fool out of myself because I had to leave and sit down and get cool again, but I managed to pull myself together and go back in the room and watch the rest of the 2 1/2 hour surgery. I don't think I embarrased myself too bad, but I had been bragging about how I hadn't fainted in anything else I'd watched. Maybe the title of this point should be don't count your chickens before they hatch - I dunno.
4. Bypass surgeries are REALLY cool and REALLY gross.
5. Make sure the radiologist has seen a person's x-ray before you take them up for a heart cath and learn that their pain is from a collapsed lung and not from their heart and that you just performed a totally unnecessary heart cath. Sometimes a fast-moving hospital isn't a good thing, believe it or not.
6. Doctors are the coolest people on earth!!!!! I can't wait to be one.
That's the main gist of my summer - I've learned sooooo much about the heart and about cardiology and just medicine in general. I can tell you the difference between an av-sequential pacemaker and a biventricular pacemaker, as well as the difference between a pacemaker and a defibrillator. I now know all the major vessels in your body and what they look like and approximately how big they are. I know the coronary system like the back of my hand and all the nicknames for the different coronary arteries.
The point of all this is (if you're still reading and have no clue what I'm talking about), I have spent my summer being amazed at how creative and wonderful God is. How did he think all this mess up? The body is incredibly complex and beautiful, and I'm really, really looking forward to being able to help people take care of the temple that God gave them to worship Him in. Man, I can't wait to be a doctor!!!!!!