I just finished my first week of my first rotation. I have been working with Dr Swift in OBGYN. I have done some pap smears, fetal heart doppler monitoring, fundal height readings. He doesnt work on thursdays so I went to the maternal fetal monitoring and watched some ultrasounds. That was pretty cool. Then Friday was quite a day! THe morning started out with a psych pt who was 4 wks post op for hysterectomy and had re-opened her incision and was bleeding. profusely. So we cleaned her up and the Dr put in a stitch and then I bandaged her up. After that we went to surgery. Dr swift did 2 laparoscopies with laser. I got to put 1 stich in each of 2 pts. I was nervous because it was my first time stitching a live person. But it went well. He only had 2 pts so I stayed after and observed surgery w Dr. Lindsey Deschamps. She is close to my age and goes to our church. She did a cone biopsy and a D&C w endometrial ablation. Then I watched a toe amputation.
All in all it was a good week, and I only got pimped out a few times when I did not have a decent answer. I am definitely going to learn alot this next year of rotations!