I'm not sure if it's my age starting to show, but this has been a pretty tiring trip so far. I might be just that we get up at 7 to leave for the hospital at 8:15, and then most days we have returned to the hotel around 8 PM to have dinner, then go to bed and start again the next morning. I'm looking forward to a longer sleep tomorrow !
Today we were up at the usual time to start our Saturday, though the thunder woke me around 6am. It is rainy season, and most days this past week it has rained pretty hard in the early morning, but then cleared up around noon. They put on extra people today, so we were able to use two rooms for our cases. Some days the impediments to a smoothly functioning surgical schedule are astonishing; today the problem was that there was only one stretcher available to transport patients, so they couldn't get the next patient until the last patient was brought to his or her room.one might think there would be an easy solution to this problem ( like having more stretchers) but maybe I'm optimistic.
Our cases today included a cholecystectomy, an adult hernia, a large neck lipoma,a scope, and some minor surgery. Everything went reasonable smoothly; it was pretty fun to take out an easy gallbladder the old fashioned way, and it brought back lots of memories for me. These days the only gallbladders we remove through an incision rather than laparoscopically are the really difficult ones.
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