Hey. Just wanted to drop a blog and discuss my experiences as a trauma surgery/critical care fellow. Just coming off my surgery chief resident year, it hard not getting to operate like most of my classmates. In this fellowship, you are mostly a medicine doctor (know as fleas) cause all you do is round. BTW, we call the medicons fleas cause they are the last thing to leave a dead body. So far, I am 3 months into this experience and the most invasive thing I have done is a perc trach.
You do meet some interesting characters however. I have one attending who is a medicine critical care doctor. One day he heard me mention that I was frustrated cause I havent been operating. He tells me, "Your not a surgeon now, you are a critical care doctor." I was shocked and pissed so I replied, "Sir, I am ALWAYS a surgeon first so please never say that again." Do you believe that shit. Fucking flea.
Anyway, will try to make some post from time to time to enlighten those who might be interested in the life of a trauma doc. Hopefully, things will eventually lead to the OR.
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