Hospital Week

This week has been all about hospital, hospital and more hospital. Because my group has been assigned to go to the hospital on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we are missing a lot of our assigned days because the school keeps cancelling Tuesday rotations. So to make up for our cancelled visits, my group and I have decided to make up some visits this week. We are going for a whopping 5 visits this week. Tuesday, we went to the male medical ward to interview a patient with rheumatic heart disease; it was interesting but kinda bumming. Wednesday, we decided to go with one of our professors, who is a licensed rheumatologist, pediatrician and a vetrinary doctor, to his clinic. What we thought would be a very easy and quick day ended up being our longest day ever on a clinical visit. We saw about 6 patients with everything from asthma to an acute appendicitis that needed to be sent to the ER ASAP. It was really cool except we ended up staying there for about 4 hours!! It was a very tiring day cause we were just standing and listening the entire time. Today, Thursday, we had surgery/urology and we saw a 2 month old little boy with a obstructed posterior urethral valve that caused him to have a a huge cyst filled with urine on his right side. The little boy was not passing any urine at all, instead his urine was just collecting in this cyst. So tomorrow the doctor is performing a surgery on the little boy to open up his obstructed valve. Our group is very lucky, cause the doctor asked us if we wanted to sit in on the procedure. So we are missing class tomorrow to go see this really cool surgery and then afterwards we are spending the afternoon in the pediatrics ward (my favorite). As you can see I was not joking when I said that we are doing mothing but hospital visits all this week. Hope everyone else is having a great week. It's almost the weekend!