- I got to assist in my last surgery. A c-section. Everything went pretty well except that the surgical tech reached across the table and slapped me during the surgery. Dr. Hardcore didn't see it, but he wasn't too happy. This isn't the first time this surgical tech has hit one of his students during a surgery and in fact, she got in trouble the first week of my OB/GYN rotation because of how she treated another medical student during the surgery. At the end of the surgery, I waited until it was just the two of us and then I thanked her for teaching me about the different surgical tools, but told her it was not professional or appropriate to slap me during a surgery (especially since the patient was not in danger at the time). She has said some extremely rude things to me and the other medical students and I usually just ignore it, but I think getting slapped in surgery was just too much for me. I was really proud of myself for standing up for myself and for talking to her alone rather than doing something unprofessional. Dr. Hardcore asked me later in the day why I seemed upset and I told him what happened. He seemed pleased with me for standing up for my self and even said something like, "not again."
- I did an endometrial biopsy. I was the only student who hadn't done a endometrial biopsy. I had heard about how yucky they are and I wasn't mislead. I felt her pain just doing the procedure. Dr. Hardcore told me to toughen up because people come to the doctor to be treated and sometime to treat patients it does cause some discomfort.
- I got sick! I woke up at 3:45 am on Wednesday with a sore throat and ear ache. I just knew it was going to be bad. I almost fell asleep at Dr. Hardcore's office Wednesday evening! He sent us home early to study for our exam Thursday. We stopped and bought the sick person essentials at Walgreen's: chicken soup, night time and day time cold syrup, orange juice, and cough drops. I headed straight to bed. I was so tired that I slept for 15 hours and I was still tired when I work up.
- We had our exam on Thursday. I think it went okay, but it was very difficult.
- One of my patients that I have been following since the first week was induced this week. Unfortunately, she had the baby in the middle of my OB/GYN exam! I really wanted to help with this delivery so I was disappointed. She was a higher risk Mama, so I was excited and happy to hear that both she and her baby were doing well.
- Friday, we arrived for the last day at 8:00am for surgery. However, we ran into Dr. Hardcore in the parking lot and he had been at the hospital most of the night because of emergencies so we didn't get to do anything on Friday. It was probably a good thing though because I was really feeling yucky. I ran out of one of my asthma medicines so Dr. Hardcore sent me home with a prescription and told me to go to sleep. I slept for a few hours because taking Farley to the airport so he could go to his brother's college graduation. I also had to finish cleaning up the house for Mom's visit.
I am really sad to be done with OB/GYN. I think I delivered about 15 babies (both vaginally and via c-section) and there were only two boys in the group of babies I delivered! I just loved my OB/GYN rotation and I am considering it as an option for residency. I am still in love with pediatric oncology/hematology so it will be interesting to see where life sends me.
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