It's July! Stay out of the Hospitals!

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Okay, so with that attention getting title...</p>

<p>FYI, my surgery clerkship started yesterday, I spend the next 4 weeks on general surgery (saw lap chole, sigmoidectomy, breast CA excision and IV port placement today) followed by 2 weeks of Peds Ortho and then two weeks ENT. B/c of the holiday I got out pretty early today which will be a rare occurrence. With that in mind, I'm not going to be around much to answer questions for definitely the next 4 weeks (maybe every once in a while and things are supposedly better on the specialty selectives)...having to be at the hospital at 5:45am to beat my resident to rounding my particular patients and staying past 7pm most days means my free time is severely diminished and CC is the first thing on the chopping block.</p>

<p>So enjoy the rest of your summers, search what's already been posted on these boards, and stay out of the hospitals when all the residents and medical students are new, lost and have no idea what's going on.</p>

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<p>Good Luck!!!!!</p>

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<p>I suddenly have the urge for an elective IV port today. . .</p>

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<p>Thanks for the precaution, and good luck to you on the clinicals.</p>

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<p>Surgery has long days:</p>

<p>Thursday in at 5:40 AM, left at 8:45PM (just enough time to get ready for bed)
Friday in at 5:46 AM left at 6:40PM</p>

<p>Have to be in tomorrow morning to round at 7:30AM...</p>

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<p>Enjoy your clerkships while you can. The days can be long, but your main job is to learn (and hold retractors). You will be praised for good work and carry around a beeper for show.</p>

<p>When you are a surgery intern, taking care of post-ops is your main job and learning is secondary. You will be chewed out if things are not exactly to the attendings liking and you will want to flush your beeper down the toilet!</p>