Life on the Wild Side
A new grad trying to figure out life after school. |
"Pop Culture and Fashion."
Those were the two categories of topics standing between me and the surgery that I was hoping to perform. While I watched the surgery video and performed the surgery on a cadaver in lab in my third year, all the preparation in the world came down to whether I could answer the resident's questions about Pop Culture and Fashion. We started scrubbing at our respective scrub stations. I had asked my friends during anesthesia prep time about current pop culture, and we came up with "Justin Bieber sang a song about babies." That's how much time we had for pop culture in our clinical year. One minute of scrubbing passed. Two minutes of scrubbing... She asked me about the structure that I'd want to avoid cutting. Angularis oculi vein. She asked me what the first thing I'd want to do in surgery is. Make sure we are removing the correct eye. What the first step was? Lateral canthotomy. Five minutes of scrubbing...
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AuthorKatie is rotating intern at Atlantic Veterinary College in Canada. She graduated from veterinary school at UC Davis in 2018. Archives
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