So in conclusion the surgery resident is not a bad guy after all, he's just an overworked, sleep deprived, busy fella who needs a break I feel him because I am one
This was a lot more wholesome than I was expecting for the gen surgery residents. Guess it's important to remember they are people too. Everyone needs a cake pop sometimes.
Just got off four weeks of gen surg and those residents are EXHAUSTED. I thought everyone hated me until I walked past two of them the week after and they stopped to say hi to me. Turns out they just needed a weekend of sleep :,)
When i was a med student rotating on gen surg, I gave my fellow a granola bar because she told me she had not eaten all day and she was so touched she let me be her first assist. Tiny human gestures hit hardest when you feel like a forgotten cog in the medicine machine.
Damn that hit me a little in the feels. Shittiest thing is surgery residents get paid like shit for someone that gives up their life to open up and fix people.
I am another a general surgery resident who teared up watching this and I think this is actually the first video of yours I ever saw back when it was first posted. Thank you for seeing us
How come you have time for these videos? Not like these videos aren't epic, just wanna know how you med students get time to do anything except study, eat, sleep and shit
"Caffeine habit", It doesn't have bad or unhealthy just try to fit in some 2-caffeine-detox-weeks every one in a while, drink de-caf and tell your self it's just normal black coffee (Trust me it does work) Take care
I've never been to med school, but I do have a couple stories about surgeons from when I worked at a hospital, and I want to help improve engagement statistics or whatever by leaving a comment: There was one surgeon who was always whistling Christmas carols, regardless of the season. It was easy to tell when he was coming down the halls. Now that I think about it, the only time I saw him *not* whistling a Christmas carol was in December. There was a large middle eastern population in our area. I remember one time when I was bringing a stretcher back to PACU, I saw two middle eastern surgeons walking in opposite directions. As they passed, one turned around and said "Hey! What do you call an Iranian from the UK? A Ukrainian!". The other one didn't laugh. I only spoke to a surgeon directly on two occasions (people with degrees more advanced than nursing generally didn't acknowledge Transport, and most of the communication on my end involved trying to get the attention of hospitalists who were standing in the middle of the hall in the ED). In both cases, it was to transport a patient from MRI to PACU. I'm not sure exactly what procedure was being done -- I only saw it twice in nine months -- but it was the same surgeon both times, and he was clearly out of his element: didn't know where to put away the box of supplies, &c. He told me we had to stop at the pharmacy on the way to PACU, and it wasn't until we made a few turns that I realized he meant the *inpatient* pharmacy. I brought patients to the family pharmacy all the time, but had never been to the inpatient pharmacy and had no idea where it was. It worked out, though, because the surgeon knew the way. He had no idea how to get to PACU afterwards, but that was where I came in; I made a joke to the effect that, between the two of us, we formed a complete person who knew where they were going. He didn't laugh.
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Why do we make this so hard? Is it historical? Is it because it was hard for the surgical attendings and program directors? Is there no better way to learn? Is there no better way to run a hospital? Cheap labor? Seriously, is there a better way to get from student to fellowship or gen surg attending?
As a third year medical student on my general surgery rotation, I once followed the surgery chief resident around all day because he left his phone at home, so I was fielding all the texts from his wife who was sitting at home monitoring his phone so he wouldn’t miss anything important. That man took me the long way around when we were walking back from the outpatient surgery center to the main hospital just so we could specifically swing by a wall made up of clear windows with a view of the garden outside because “this is the only time I get to see the sun.” Not even to actually go outside, just so we could look out the window at some sunlight and greenery for a few seconds as we walked past it. That was the exact moment I decided I was absolutely definitely NOT going into surgery 🥲
I’m a surgical PA who did a residency program and sadly we all did this whenever possible. The ICU had the best view of the Long Island sound, and the ends of the surgery floor hallways had windows and we would stop, look out, and then keep moving. Got dark at 4 PM in the winter. Ugh those were the days 😂😂
Lol I am a gen surg resident and I do these exact things; take the long way because there’s a window with some sunlight , when I was on consult nights I would take a particular route back from the ED just to see the sky, and recently I bought a wall sticker of a picture of an open window for our resident lounge/workroom which has no real windows at all
