I'm sitting here at the hospital waiting to round for the afternoon. This rotation is going quite well so far. I'm paired with two other students, Mike Keller and Jackie Turner, who are also going into surgery and are good friends. They are both awesome people. My 3rd year medicine resident is Ana Arango, who was my 2nd year resident last year on my medicine rotation at LBJ. She has been mentioned previously on this here blog. The fellow is Tony Zachira, who seems to be very cool and is very laid-back. He also teaches which is a big plus. Finally the attending is Dr. Estrada Y Martin, who is quiet but already seems very cool. We will wait and see.
The month will go like this: we round in the mornings on patients who have pulmonary (lung) issues. Many of them just had heart surgery, and we are asked to check on them and sometimes we extubate them after surgery. (Extubate means we take the breathing tube out, because they are recovered enough from surgery and can breathe on their own.) If we see a non-cardiac patient, it could be about almost anything. Right now I'm following a guy who had fluid in his pericardium (the sac that surrounds the heart) and also his lungs. The cardiac surgeon drained this fluid, so now we're making sure everything is in order. There are several patients on the service, all with interesting problems.
I am looking forward to the weekend. Kayla and I have lots of stuff planned which includes dinner tonight, the dollar movie, omelets tomorrow morning, and whatever else we can think of. I would like to go to MD Anderson Cancer Center tomorrow and help the cardiology fellow Cezar Iliescu (famed tennis partner) in the ICU over there. It would be a great experience for me and would also be fun to see Cezar. His wife is currently on internal medicine here at Hermann Hospital, so I should be running into her soon.
Finally, it should be noted that all of my thank-you notes to the surgery programs I like are in. I am looking forward to the match (assuming my outcome is favorable, which hopefully it will be). I am glad all of that is over, and now I can enjoy the rest of my medical school career, which is almost over. I will enjoy writing a paper about the interview experience with Dr. Anderson in the coming months. I hope I can get it published somewhere.
The month will go like this: we round in the mornings on patients who have pulmonary (lung) issues. Many of them just had heart surgery, and we are asked to check on them and sometimes we extubate them after surgery. (Extubate means we take the breathing tube out, because they are recovered enough from surgery and can breathe on their own.) If we see a non-cardiac patient, it could be about almost anything. Right now I'm following a guy who had fluid in his pericardium (the sac that surrounds the heart) and also his lungs. The cardiac surgeon drained this fluid, so now we're making sure everything is in order. There are several patients on the service, all with interesting problems.
I am looking forward to the weekend. Kayla and I have lots of stuff planned which includes dinner tonight, the dollar movie, omelets tomorrow morning, and whatever else we can think of. I would like to go to MD Anderson Cancer Center tomorrow and help the cardiology fellow Cezar Iliescu (famed tennis partner) in the ICU over there. It would be a great experience for me and would also be fun to see Cezar. His wife is currently on internal medicine here at Hermann Hospital, so I should be running into her soon.
Finally, it should be noted that all of my thank-you notes to the surgery programs I like are in. I am looking forward to the match (assuming my outcome is favorable, which hopefully it will be). I am glad all of that is over, and now I can enjoy the rest of my medical school career, which is almost over. I will enjoy writing a paper about the interview experience with Dr. Anderson in the coming months. I hope I can get it published somewhere.
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