Haven't been writing about work lately...except HO-bitching...but that's not really work...anyway, today i went to Beaufort Hospital for our monthly visit to operate on patients there...went with boss, Yap and 2 HOs...had to wake up earlier this morning coz the car was leaving at 7am...our journey took about 1 1/2 hours...we had 6 hernioplasties, 1 breast lump excision and 1 sebaceous cyst excision waiting for us...
We started our case at about 930am...i didn't dare do a hernioplasty on my own coz i still wasn't too confident with my steps...so i asked Yap to scrub in with me...made him stay with me till i finished suturing the mesh...then he went to start the 2nd case...by the time i started my second hernioplasty, boss already finished seeing the patients in clinic...so he scrubbed in to help me...i still don't know how to identify the hernial sac...i think the HO who was assisting me could probably do better at it...
Anyhow, managed to do 3 hernioplasties...and i did the breast lump excision....the lump was about 4x3 cm...had some problem catching the lump coz it kept breaking off...but somehow managed to get it out in one piece...then did the sebaceous cyst excision under LA...wanted to let the HO do it but boss was complaining that it was almost 5pm and fasting month has started...i did let the HO do the incision...but he went and burst the capsule...and just as i took back the scalpel from him, boss walked in...phew!!! at least he didn't see that i let the HO do it...so no choice, i had to say that i broke the capsule...and he said, as expected..:P
So we managed to finish 5 minutes before 5pm...and the nurse commented that this was the first time our visiting team has ever finished before 5pm...well, glad they were happy about that...so was i...by then my back and neck were aching already...i'm sure the poor HO (who is a lot taller than i am) felt worse...so after that, our car came to pick us up and sent us back to SMC...quite a long day today...but quite fruitful...and tomorrow, i'll be starting a stretch of 3 eods....need to sleep...nights...
Did they give spinal or GA for the hernia op? Must be quite fast to reverse if they did under GA? Since you have 6 hernias... That's truely amazing!
ReplyDeleteEm... Maybe you shoud check if the HO has started a blog to bitch about MOs? :D
mostly spinal...only one had to convert to GA...actually they are quite slow...but we had 2 OTs running...hmmm...don't really care if the HO has a MO-bitching blog or not...to each his/ her own...:P
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