As a result, he was saddled with 5 eager medical students who had absolutely no idea what they should be doing in the hospital whatsoever. Clerking patients? Where do we get the patients? Are we supposed to read the case notes? How do we get "good cases"? What is a "good case"?

Dr T was accommodating and nice, letting the medical students latch on to him like remora to a shark, and bringing them around on his Grand Rounds (?) with his Prof. Prof + 2 Consultants + 2 Regs + 2 HOs + 5+2 medical students walked into many patients' rooms, much to the shock and dismay of patients, who had probably been expecting a nice quiet talk with the prof and maybe a consultant/reg or two.

Anyway, it was highly entertaining, if not as educational as the bunch of medical students had hoped. Not that it really mattered, for they were lost in the wonderful world of CSFC, anyway.

We went to the OT this morning to see the removal of the tail of somebody's pancreas. Most of the operation consisted of the prof, a consultant and 2 regs looking into somebody's body cavity while medical students stood on the OT stools trying to look into the cavity and were scolded by the scrub nurses for contaminating (almost!) the sterile field. (but they didn�t know what a sterile field was, honest!) Didn�t see much, but it was interesting, and we got to poke the removed pancreatic tail.

Not as tired today as I was yesterday, but my feet hurt still.

CSFC! It's a mini surg posting.

written at 10:09 p.m.