Comments on: True Tales of Medical School: The First Stitch

By: SurgeXperiences 201: Better « monash medical student

SurgeXperiences 201: Better « monash medical student — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:06:15 +0000

[...] Next, we have Dr Scott, a family physician who blogs at Polite Dissent, share about his surgery rotations during medical school, and the time he got to do his first subcuticular stitch on the leg of a patient having carotid endarterectomy. [...]

By: Eric the .5b

Eric the .5b — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:34:01 +0000

I’m amused that in your retelling of it here, you remembered your suturing taking twice as long after the main surgery than you did in that first post.

Even our embarrassments seem bigger in time.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:34:15 +0000

If we are to use Dr. House as a role model, we must assume Scott is lying. What’s he hiding? I think he let it slip when he mentioned bartending. Psudo, you rummage through his garbage. Zzedar, you break into his house and search for random clues. Everyone else, look busy!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:30:15 +0000

Carl,

No, I do minor surgery, and it’s something I enjoy. I just don’t use subcuticular stitches. I generally use interrupted sutures, usually a style known as mattress sutures.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:40:13 +0000

My current GP doc does minor surgery (closing cuts, removing skin tags, etc.) as part of his normal practice. I’m gathering you don’t.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:11:07 +0000

Man I wish we had a chance to choose A B or C. Ours were kind of all A. We all got to do a lot, but were miserable. But, we only did two months instead of three.

One time I was trying to suture a mastectomy incision on one side while a chief resident was suturing the other. One of the 4th year residents kept punching me in the arm and telling me that I was, “losing the race.” My response was that he might not care how this looked, but I was pretty sure the patient did.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:35:58 +0000

Damn, that’s embarrassing. Must be overwork, or maybe Alzheimer’s.

Oh well, just consider it a Summer Repeat.

By: Psudo

Psudo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:58:10 +0000

Compare the two versions for inconsistency! Perhaps we can diagnose some kind of memory-affecting disease. It’s what Dr. House would do.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:29:56 +0000

But recycling is GOOD! ;)

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:14:28 +0000

I think he was just elaborating, perhaps