This is So Cool

Skipping Out of the OR

In OBGYN, we're doing an OR for gyne stuff. It was really cool, but at the same time, as a clerk you're just watching.

So I’m scrubbed in on a laparoscopic surgery, I'm just looking at the screen the whole time. I couldn’t hold the camera a resident was scrubbed in. It's kind of cool, but also not really, because I don't do anything.  

Then I was my first c-section, and that was so ––ing cool. It's amazing and barbaric at the same time. You go in there for the c-sections, and we’re going to rip open someone’s belly and shove the baby out. Loved it. There was a day that me and Olena (another student) were on. I went into the OR with the c-section, and I didn't just stand there and do nothing. My attending let me help her, and let me hold things. At the end, she was like, “Do you want to close?” I was like, “Yeah, I want to close!” She asked me if I knew how to do the sub q stitch, I was like, “Yeah, I've been practicing.” Like literally practicing my little, flesh pad thing, which I thought I would never really use other than doing laceration repairs in the emerg or something. So, I do dub qs through the belly. She's watching me, the residents watching me and they’re giving me nice feedback. I was trying to stay super cool and calm. When I’m done, she said that I could head out and I was like, “Okay, thank you” and I walk out of the OR calmly. The second the door closes, I'm skipping, I am SKIPPING down the hallway. I did a little happy dance because there's no one around. Then, I ran over to Olena and I'm like, “I just closed the skin! It was amazing!” In clerkship, there's been things I've liked like delivering a baby, but there’s nothing that had made me feel so accomplished. It was such a little task, but I finished it and did a good job. I looked at it like “Yeah, I set that up and the line is straight and she's not gonna have a bad scar.” I felt really ––ing cool. When I say skipped, I SKIPPED out of that OR.