As promised, my experience as a surgeon... as faculty say, "Medical students believe they need to do a procedure three times to claim they are experts." So I can call myself a surgeon for the time being, since I have seen and/or scrubbed in a lap chole, lumpectomy and appendectomy three times! :P
As I walked into the operating room on the first day, the nurses, doctors and nursing aid were all a bit startled, to say the least. I was ready to scrub in on the first day! I had my scrubs and all personal protective equipment ready to scrub into my first procedure - hemorrhoidectomy! After scrubbbing into the first procedure, I knew surgery was gonna be an awesome clerkship.
So far it has been great. On an OR day, the maximum number of surgeries I have scrubbed into is four!
Surgery is almost over, less than 3 weeks till exams.
