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Old 05-11-2008, 02:16 PM
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i actually love having blood on my scrubs. felt like i had a merit badge on.
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i actually love having blood on my scrubs. felt like i had a merit badge on.
Blood on scrubs I don't mind because you can just go change. Blood on white coat I hate because I take it home, and I'm sure your patient doesn't feel comfortable seeing you look like a mad butcher.
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Blood on scrubs I don't mind because you can just go change. Blood on white coat I hate because I take it home, and I'm sure your patient doesn't feel comfortable seeing you look like a mad butcher.
and it costs so much to dry clean it.
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Blood on scrubs I don't mind because you can just go change. Blood on white coat I hate because I take it home, and I'm sure your patient doesn't feel comfortable seeing you look like a mad butcher.
It really depends on a patient
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Hahahaha.. I can put up with the pimping, scut work, dressing changes, etc... if they would just remember that the world doesn't revolve around the surgery dept.

We all have lives outside the hospital, and need time to do important things like, pay bills, buy groceries, STUDY!.. ya know minor things. Getting off at 7pm sometimes later and having 2-4 hours a day before having to go to bed gets old QUICK.

Just let me go by 5pm and I can live with it. I hate the differing times of being dismissed everyday. Being a student there should be a rule that students cannot stay past 5pm.
There really isn't much to study for Surgery, especially if you have already rotated through internal medicine.
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There really isn't much to study for Surgery, especially if you have already rotated through internal medicine.
Well, some of the procedures I didn't know about until I reached surgery. And the order of some things you learn in surgery. But yup, for the most part, the indications are pretty much the same. But god bless surgery for the procedures you get to do, breaks the monotony.
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So I am comparing surgery schedules at different AUC sites. So what were some of your hours while in surgery on a weekly basis.

so what are your experiences?
We started at 6am (5:30 while doing ICU),then did morning rounds until 7:30. After that, I had about 2-3 cases per day (I used to hide out between cases to keep from getting scutted out too much ), then afternoon rounds were anywhere from 3-6pm so we went home anywhere from 4:30 ( on a good day.....VERY rare) to around 7pm.....usually around 6-7pm. we were on call q4 which SUCKED, pretty much all our weekends were shot. Surgery sucked...it was my least favorite rotation. Long hours, not enough teaching (although my couple of weeks in the Surgery ICU were a different story, the attendings were Pulmonologists who were big on teaching). Best way to survive....suck it up, hide and study/sleep whenever possible, and unless you're trying to go into surgery, don't try to be a superstar....chances are no on will care anyway and you'll piss off your fellow students lol.
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