Sunday, July 28, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
A day in the life.
"What's that?" Says the Orthopod pointing somewhere near the thumb.
"Errr, is that the abductor pollicis?" I stumble, struggling vainly to remember my hand anatomy from 9 months ago... And why have I been unable to remember any of that cramming I did last night?
"What? No."
"Hmm, is it the palmar aponeurosis?" I'm not sure what she's pointing at any more. Time to guess wildly.
"Stop answering in the form of a question! I ask the questions! See it's white, now what is it?"
"Is it" I pause as a groan emerges from the surgeon. "It's a tendon..." I say with a slight upward inflection.
"It's palmaris Brevis" she says, looking up from the half-finshed carpal tunnel. I nod, having only ever heard of the palmaris longus.
"Oh... right. I've never even heard of that muscle. I don't think it's in my textbook. What does it do?"
"I ask the questions!" She yelped before laughing and letting me guess at its function... Apparently it has no function.
Actually that was a fun day. After another five carpal tunnels I finally had it figured out! We stopped halfway through the list to have ham and pea soup which one of the nurses had brought in declaring "It's very farty!" Fortunately the topic turned from me getting drilled to chatting about horses and the best way to keep bugs out of strawberries.
Country medicine!
"Errr, is that the abductor pollicis?" I stumble, struggling vainly to remember my hand anatomy from 9 months ago... And why have I been unable to remember any of that cramming I did last night?
"What? No."
"Hmm, is it the palmar aponeurosis?" I'm not sure what she's pointing at any more. Time to guess wildly.
"Stop answering in the form of a question! I ask the questions! See it's white, now what is it?"
"Is it" I pause as a groan emerges from the surgeon. "It's a tendon..." I say with a slight upward inflection.
"It's palmaris Brevis" she says, looking up from the half-finshed carpal tunnel. I nod, having only ever heard of the palmaris longus.
"Oh... right. I've never even heard of that muscle. I don't think it's in my textbook. What does it do?"
"I ask the questions!" She yelped before laughing and letting me guess at its function... Apparently it has no function.
Actually that was a fun day. After another five carpal tunnels I finally had it figured out! We stopped halfway through the list to have ham and pea soup which one of the nurses had brought in declaring "It's very farty!" Fortunately the topic turned from me getting drilled to chatting about horses and the best way to keep bugs out of strawberries.
Country medicine!
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