A Week at the Hospital

Hi,
I just finished my first week of work experience at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. It was really good actually.

Day 1
Urology, the kidneys, bladder etc, was. Ugh. Kinda gross. Let's not go there. But they took out kidney stones and stuff. Oh and plastics in the afternoon. That was alright. They pretty much cut out bits of skin and replaced it.. xP I learnt how to open up sterile packages without un-sterilizing them by touching them with my unsterile hands. :)

Day 2
Although I was in the ER, there wasn't any emergency cases. Is it bad that I kinda wished there were? :P Anyway, I saw 3 gall bladder removals. Three.. They don't actually cut you up, but it's called 'key-hole' surgery. So not thaaat gory. And another procedure was clearing the artery in a man's neck because it was being clogged with.. stuff?

Day 3
I was in the Cardiac theatre. I got to see a live heart beating in a man's chest less than a metre away. It was preeetty darn cool. It was a coronary artery bypass and they had to temporarily stop the heart so they could work on it without having blood flooding everything. D: They also used this saw-like thing to cut through the breastbone. It. Was. Pretty. Awesome.

Day 4
I treated myself with a cinnamon pretzel in the morning. :) Brain tumor! Well, it was wrapped around the optic nerve, but still. It got just a teensy bit boring as it was about a 4 hour surgery..

Day 5
I got to follow the nurses around in the day surgery ward, where they take care of post-op patients. It was fuun. And although it was just helping to clean and make beds, I was SO grateful for just being able to help with something. Because I hadn't been able to do anything for the past 4 days.. The people were extremely friendly.

Idk if I'm gonna become a surgeon... Although I didn't find the blood disgusting, and it was quite interesting, I can't really see myself doing it every single day.

Still unclear,
Not-surgeon-to-be.