The day after I went to the OR for the first time, I was back in the hospital, but for a different reason. My significant other had woken in the middle of the night to unbearable pain. I started out of bed and rushed to put clothes on, and within minutes we were [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘operating room’
January 23, 2009
The cost of medical care
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Tags: emergency room, healthcare, insurance, medicine, operating room, surgery
November 17, 2008
I went to the OR!
I did it! I went to the OR to watch a surgery. It’s something I’ve wanted to do ever since I interviewed for this job, but for some reason, once I started working, I kept putting it off. Cold feet, I suppose. But after the cocktail party, the plans were made for me to come [...]
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Tags: adenoidectomy, cochlear implant, doctor, ENT, hospital, IV, Long QT, nurse, operating room, OR, physician, premed, scrubs, surgeon, surgery, Twitter, tympanoplasty
November 11, 2008
In Which Alcohol Leads Me to the OR
Tonight, my division within the Children’s Hospital held a cocktail party, and I’m so glad that I went. I finally met doctors and audiologists whose names I’ve seen for almost 6 months. One of the physicians, I actually helped him with a project early in the fall, but we only worked over the phone and [...]
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Tags: admissions, admissions committee, Applications, cochlear implant, ENT, operating room, OR, premed, surgery