The perfect doctor

Prior to today I was the perfect medical student. 100% of my cannulations, blood draws and intubations had been on song. Alas, my first real patient and I missed the target. Naturally I blamed the tools - it was my first time using a butterfly and didnt go deep enough. But still, I concede my record is now shot.

Like most of the things I just assume I'm good at. I really should have retired before I started.

In other news, I'm making a living following doctors around. It has been interesting. Also tiring. Two years of being a student and you forget what a full day of work looks like. But the team has been nice to me. I happened to kick off on New RMO Day. Which was great, because they were also finding their feet and the consultant spent extra time explaining things. Unfortunately my first ever ward round went for five hours, and I was extremely glad to go skive off and have lunch at the end of it.

Sure I sucked at interpreting ECGs. But on the plus side, I knew that a tumour in the left lung can give you a horse voice (but forgot the more likely cause of hypothyroidism, who knew!)

Also, I actually properly hear my first ever murmur (and not just nodding when a doctor asks me if I can hear that?) It must have been super loud.

I'm learnding.

All I see is vampires

I stole a mans blood today. Right from out of his elbow! I suspect it wont be the only time I'll have to do that. But it was the first, and very exciting. Regrettably the same person got me back when my head was turned.

And then for the sake of education we learned about ambulances int he afternoon. It was quite amusing, as it strarted off with a rather cheerful fellow asking us about what sort of things you might find in an aambulance. He let the group meander blindly before calling us all to get up and leave the lecture theatre. Walking us outside to a waiting he ambulance, we were instructed to strip its contents bare and bring it inside to see just how many fun bits of equipment there are.

It was actually quite amusing.

All in all a good day. Back to the wards for the weekend though. Pretending to be a nurse again.