That's right, this past week I did my first real rectal exam. It was fantastic. I always thought I had long fingers, but they never seem long enough when I'm sticking them in various orifices.
I'm sure I'll get to do plenty more when I start my rotations this summer. I will be doing 8 weeks of family medicine and 10 weeks of surgery to start off, which is good cause then I'll know early if I can "cut" it in surgery or if I'm doomed to anuses (or is it ani). The rest of my rotation schedule is 8 weeks of Internal Medicine (Which may be something I end up in cause I really like Hematology), 4 weeks of Psychiatry (also a possibility - I'm too crazy not to consider it), 4 weeks of Dermatology, 6 weeks of Pediatrics and lastly 6 weeks of OB/GYN.
I'm looking forward to all of it. The doctors here are great and are excited to teach us. I'm most excited for surgery. I'll be doing the first 4 weeks at a small rural hospital, so I'm sure I'll get to see some pretty crazy stuff (rural=crazy). The other 6 weeks will be in vascular surgery here in Beaufort (a somewhat bigger hospital). We're the only med students here too, so we won't be competing with anyone and we'll get to do alot.
The more I think about it the more I think I'm going to try to do my residency (whatever it may be) in Arizona. We'll see how that all works out tho.
2 comments:
The pictures are hilarious! And that's right, get your butt back to Arizona Boy!
uh this has nothing to do with your rectal exam post...but Paris was sooo excited she got to talk to you at grandma dewitts house! She has told me like 5 times already!
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