4th day

Surgery day 4
6pm - New day, new resident. I didn't get to follow up on the patients I was with yesterday. I hope they're doing well after surgery.

8pm - Today was all about management. For the most part, the resident and I spent a good deal of the night trying to maintain people's blood pressures and hemoglobin counts until the next morning, where other surgeons can come in and eventually work on them if need be. So the night wasn't too crazy, but still we kept people from tanking, which is a very good thing.

My resident tonight was very cool. He started out as a flight doc for the air force, but wanted to be an ENT, so he had to go back and do a surgical residency, which set him back a few extra years. He's a family man and very easy going. He likes to teach and all the nursing staff seem to adore him. On the way to a call from another hospital, we were blaring Boston on his CD player! Heck, when we got there, my resident even ended up singing a country duet with the patient while he got blood and fluids. Did not expect to see that at all. So apparently not all surgical residents are bitter SOB's.

At around 4:30am, The resident and I caught a break and finally got a half-hour nap before radiology review @ 6am.

All in all a decent 4th day. Now I'm pooped and ready for a nice nappy nap. See you later.

Song of the day: "Submarine Symphonika" - The Submarines