Hey guys!
It’s Saturday about 8:50 at night.
I actually just finished my other vlog (starting my surgery rotation vlog) it’s gonna go
live probably before this vlog.
This is gonna be a week long vlog, I’m gonna try to a little bit of vlogging every day,
just so you guys can get a sense of what my week is like during my surgery rotation.
So it’s Saturday night and I’m heading to bed super early because tomorrow morning
I’m going to be on call at the hospital from probably 4:45am to Monday morning whenever
at the discretion of my team.
So I’m gonna be at the hospital for probably over 24 hours.
So that’s gonna be my call.
I’m setting my alarm clock and I’m gonna show you guys.
This is my sunrise alarm clock and this has two alarms.
So my first alarm is gonna be at 4:00 am and my second alarm is gonna be at…
I don’t know, let’s do 4:05 am, just so they’re 5 minutes apart.
I like to have two alarms--actually, I like to have multiple alarms.
I’m also gonna set some alarms on my phone because I like to snooze.
On my phone I’m gonna have 3:58, 4:07, 4:18--these are just pretty random, just random times
that I like to set my alarms.
As you guys can see I have like all times of the day in here, but that’s how I set
my alarm clock.
Alright, so I’m headed to bed.
I will most likely see you guys on Sunday when I get a chance if not then Monday, post
call.
So here’s a quick tour of the common area in the call room.
There’s a couch, a couple computers, here is the kitchen area with a microwave and a
sink.
Here’s the bathroom--there are two bathrooms and there’s a shower in here if you guys
wanna see, linen closet with fresh sheets, pillowcases and all that.
And here are the rooms.
This is the room that I was just in, there’s two bunk beds a chair, yeah, that’s pretty
much it!
Hey guys.
Just doing a quick check-in here.
I just got back from my 24-hour call, meaning I was in the hospital for--umm--it’s more
like 26 hour call.
I stayed with my trauma team throughout my call.
I was in the hospital from Sunday morning, I think like Sunday 4:30 am to today to about
6:30am.
It was pretty eventful actually.
There were about three emergent cases that came in through the emergency department,
two of them were trauma.
I got to fix a head laceration from a car accident so I got to put in some stitches
on some guy’s head which was really cool, he was ok so that’s good.
Also there was an emergency appendectomy on a young girl so I got to scrub into that too,
that was also really cool.
I got about three hours of sleep from 2am to, I think it was from 1am to 4am, which
is when I woke up.
And then I did my morning rounds.
I visited my patients and then I came home not too long ago.
It’s about 7am right now.
So I’m off for today.
Today is Monday.
I’m off today because I came back from a long call.
I’m going to be home.
I’m not sure what I’m gonna do.
I’m gonna try to get a little more sleep--I only slept three hours.
I’m gonna try to get a little more sleep and then I’ll just see when I wake up and
I’ll try to be productive with a little studying or something.
But yeah, just wanted to check in and I will see you guys probably later today.
Hey guys!
I actually slept for about 3 hours or so, 3 and a half hours.
I got home at around 6:30-7:00am and I think slept from about 7:30am to 10:30am.
I’ll take it you know, it’s hard to squeeze in sleep when you’re supposed to be in the
hospital for too long.
I didn’t wanna sleep too much because I have to wake up early tomorrow morning--at
4:00am again so I wanna go to bed tonight at 9pm--that’s my goal.
So today I have off because it’s post call which is super nice.
It’s Monday and I think I’m gonna go to couple shops to return a couple things.
That’s a nice thing about having a weekday off, you get to do all these normal human
things like running errands and things are open so you can go to the bank and it’s
open.
So definitely going to enjoy that.
I’m gonna come back and do a little bit of studying.
I got a little bit of studying done yesterday but I wasn’t expecting to have as much down
time as I did yesterday, so I didn’t bring a ton of stuff with me.
I didn’t have my computer with me so I know for next time I’ll just bring my study materials
so that if I have down time during call I can get some work done so anyway that’s
the plan for the day.
I heard it’s like super cold out.
I guess the silver lining of having a really crazy schedule at the hospital is like the
weather doesn’t really affect you so like even if it’s like super cold or snowy or
snowstorm or whatever, as long as you get to the hospital you’re like fine.
So yeah, I don’t think I’m gonna spend a ton of time outside but I heard it’s cold.
Anyway, so I’m just gonna go get some stuff done and I will see you guys later.
Today is Tuesday, it’s Tuesday night around 7:20pm right now.
Today was a really cool day because I got to scrub into a hand surgery--it was actually
a wrist laceration.
It was an emergent situation because he was a trauma when he came in.
He was rushed in the OR right away.
I was just kinda standing there hoping that they will let me watch or participate in some
way.
I was debating whether I should scrub in or not and they said I should so I did.
Actually a tip, when you’re in doubt, you should ask.
You shouldn’t wait around and have someone tell you that you should scrub in.
They may never but you should ask--can I scrub in.
Which is what I did.
And then, I mostly watched and helped cutting sutures and stuff but at the end the resident
had to leave to answer a page so it was just me and the attending and he actually let me
close the wound with a suture called vertical mattress.
It’s kinda special to me because my dad taught it to me over the summer and he was
having me practice it.
I remember thinking it’s so--there’s just like a lot of different things you do with
it.
I remember thinking do they really use this?
Why do I have to learn this?
But then they asked me to do it and I knew how to do it.
It was so cool that I was telling the attending: Oh my god, I can’t wait to tell my dad.
And then he was like ‘oh, resident take a picture’ the resident took two pictures
and sent it to me.
Obviously I’m not gonna put it online but I just showed it to my dad--it was very very
cool.
So today was a very special day.
Just wanted to check in with you guys and let you know about my cool experience today.
Oh!
By the way, I got home at like 7pm I went to the gym after I was done at the hospital.
I was done around 6pm, went to the gym, worked out for about an hour just got home, it’s
crazy that I have to go to sleep in like an hour and a half.
So I think that’s the sucky part about surgery--there’s not much time outside of the hospital because
you really have to prioritize sleep if you’re waking up at 4am everyday.
Every morning you really have to, at least for me, I really have to go to bed by 9pm.
So I’m lucky that all of the cases and all of the surgeries that I’ve been in have
been short enough that I’ve never really have had to stay late.
But I’ve heard that in other services like surgical oncology, the surgeries are really
long and students end up staying much longer.
Fortunately, I haven’t had to do that.
Anyway, I’m about to heat up some dinner and I’m gonna look up couple things that
I saw today so that--you know sometimes it’s just really good to look up the things that
you saw so that it sits with you so you never forget it when you see something in person.
So that is what I’m doing today.
Good morning guys!
It’s Wednesday morning, about 4:40am.
Today is lecture day so we have lectures and conferences from 8am to 2pm.
But I have to go in and round my patients before that.
I’m here up and early.
I’m gonna get to the hospital but it will be short day so I’m excited.
I feel tired I’m probably gonna take a nap later this afternoon but that’s what I’m
doing today.
Hey guys!
I’m just checking in.
It’s Wednesday night about 6pm.
Today I had lecture from 7am and we were done by 1pm.
I was really, really tired.
But anyway, I came home, I figured I could probably use a quick nap, so I napped for
a little bit.
Wednesdays are supposed to be our lecture days/a little bit of a break from the hospital
just because surgery rotation is so intense or it’s very intensive.
So today, this afternoon, I took a nap!
I watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy cause I’m really behind.
And now I’m listening to Dr. Pestana’s audio lecture and reading the book at the
same time.
So just gonna be studying and just wanted to check in with you guys.
Hey guys so it’s Thursday about 11’o clock.
I just got finished rounding with the attending and the team.
I have a little bit of downtime so I wanted to check in with you guys.
Today started off same as usual, got to the hospital around 4:45am, made the list of patients,
which is primarily the medical student’s job.
Then I pre-rounded, just checking on patients to see how they were doing and how they did
overnight.
And then I went to morning report, which is where we get into a room together--the residents,
students and attending and we talk about the patients one by one and then we rounded as
a group with the attending where we visited each patient and talked to them to see how
they’re doing, talk about the plan for the day and we just got finished.
I have about an hour of down time.
I have my trauma pager, unless something happens and there’s a trauma I’m gonna be in here
in the call room.
I have my book, I’m gonna do a little bit of reading and maybe take a nap if I have
time or if I get tired.
I will see you guys later.
Hope you guys are having a good week!
Hey guys!
So it’s Friday afternoon.
I just got home from the hospital.
It’s about 5 o’clock.
I had a case that I could have gone into around 4-4:30pm but I decided not to go because I’m
actually going to a friend’s place for dinner and to hang out so I wanted to get there on
time.
I guess that’s the thing about medicine.
I did have to let my friend know there’s a possibility that I may have to go to surgery
and I might not be able to make it until later.
But I did end up having a choice after all.
So I decided to skip it for today and just go to my friend’s for dinner.
So I’m headed out.
I’m pretty tired actually.
It was a long week but I have a 3 day weekend coming up.
So that’s good.
I’m enjoying my time in trauma surgery.
Next week I’m gonna be on a different team.
It’s gonna be for emergency general surgery, so I’ll get to see a little more general
surgery, things like appendectomy, lap chole, things like that I didn’t really get to
see during trauma surgery so I’ll keep you guys in the loop and try to update you guys
later, if not I’ll close the vlog when I come back.