Bloody early start this morning. Had to be in for 7.45. Not too bad as I could get a bus from outside my door that dropped me 2 mins walk from Ascot private hospitla. This is the place Keith Richards was treated when he suffered a subdural haematoma following his fall......from a coconut tree!
I was to spend the day in surgery with my supervisor. He seemed really nice. Very willing to get me involoved and he drives a BMW Z4. Alas he wasn’t willing to give it too me.....yet.
Spent the morning doing a day surgery list in their new $1 million digital theatre. Laparoscopy’s seem so much easier when the image s on a plasma screen. I could definitely get used to this.
Free lunch again, this time provided by the hospital. Nice!
The afternoon was pretty similar. However, it was about midway through the list that someone noticed that of the 7 people in theatre, the only Kiwi was on the table. What made it particulrly odd was the Glaswegian anaesthetist.
Only real bit of excitement was our abdo hysterectomy patient going into asystole for no apparent reason. I wasn’t much help, just stood there looking dazed and waiting for someone to blame me!
Supervisor gave me Monday off so I decided to spend 3 days in the very North of the North island. Plenty of stories and photos coming up then.
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