Have you ever had the feeling that there is another world just out of sight. I saw the preview for The Spiderwick Chronicles, and it reminds me of that. I'm on my OB/GYN rotation and we were in a C-section this morning. After they clean the patient's belly, they put a sheet up between their face and the rest of their body (I don't know too many people who really want to see or could handle seeing themselves with an 8 inch incision in their belly). They are numb from the waist down and are just waiting for the baby's cry. When the baby is born it cries, thy clean it off and give it to the pediatricians in the room who clean it off, the father is taking pictures, they bring the baby back to the mom to look at and...we're still down there trying to close up this gaping hole in her abdomen. Today this was all going on while the woman was losing lots of blood (like 1.5 liters worth of blood).
Them - Oh look how cute this baby is. He's got my chin
Us - clamp this down there, maybe it's coming from there
Them - Oh he is a fighter, look at him cry
Us - No, you're not sewing fast enough
Them - Can you believe that we have a baby. This is great
Us - There isn't time to make it look perfect, just sew here to stop all this blood.
And so on. It was a very surreal experience. It was like to different worlds right next to each other and (because I wasn't really doing anything important) I was able to see both of them in this weird juxtaposition.
3 comments:
That would be a very interesting experience. U do always wonder if everything really did go as uneventful as you thought it did. So not thinking of becoming an Ob/Gyn?
I'm not really interested in doing OB/GYN as a specialty, but I think that having OB training as a family practice doctor will be a great asset as we're planning on living in a more rural location. That or going overseas somewhere to practice rural medicine. Who knows.
I seriously don't know you how you do it...but so glad that you do. :)
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