St. Mary's, Waterbury, CT

[thethom]

I got a deal set up at the hotel across the street...nice to be close for those 4am mornings..

[traumajunkie]

Cant wait my brother rotated there, well since I want to do surgery or er I want to rotate here, I heard its tough as hell.-lol

[thethom]

Wow, 6 weeks into this rotation, all I have to say, I LOVE SURGERY!!! I get to scrub on Plastics, ENT, Vascular, Thoracic cases daily, in addition to Gen surg stuff of all sorts, not just lap choles (students can go to the pig lab and practice lap choles, sternotomies, etc themselves, and to Yale to practice on the lap simulator!) Some of my fellow students have scrubbed on cardiac cases (CABG mostly), neurosurg, and Ophtho cases. Then on call my beeper goes off all night for trauma alerts, some flown in by helicopter. Yeahhhhhh! On my second call (q4) I scrubbed on an emergency craniotomy in the middle of the night for a guy with an acute subdural. Motorcycle helmets are not required in this state I guess, so you see lots of motorcycle (donorcycles as theyre called here) head trauma, and since its warming up now, more and more and more. Wow, how can anyone NOT do surgery?!?!?

Ok gotta be in at 430 so off to sleep.