The Last of the Gustafson Stories (For Now)
The two quizzes in surgery lab today produced one less class to worry about. There may be a final next week, but I am happy with my grade and therefore do not have to take it. This is fabulous, considering the six other exams scheduled.
At the beginning of the term, Dr. Gustafson informed us that he wanted the course to be fun. I was skeptical - it fit into the category of professors referring to drawings of molecules as "cartoons" (cartoons are supposed to be humorous, not just artwork depicting some science fact). Well, Gustafson successfully proved the worthlessness of my skepticism. Principles of Surgery has been possibly the most humorous, enjoyable, and practical class I have taken.
I made a bit of a mis-step in surg lab today - one of my superiors was demonstrating the use of surgical staplers, and couldn't get the two parts of one together (he had 24 eyes bearing down on him - I reckon he would have figured it out in the absence of an audience). I started itching to get my hands on it and see if I could make it work. As I looked longingly at the parts, I realized what may have been the issue. When the superior had completed the stapling demonstration using other staplers and the crowd had mostly dispersed to the rest of the room, I picked up the two stapler parts, pulled a lever away from one part and put the pieces together. Hmm... I think it would have been better to wait until more of my classmates were gone, or perhaps to have suggested pulling up the lever to my superior instead of doing it myself... Oh, well...
One plus of the imperfect scenario was that I got to use the stapler on some tissue at the suggestion of the superior. It was pretty neat.
At the beginning of the term, Dr. Gustafson informed us that he wanted the course to be fun. I was skeptical - it fit into the category of professors referring to drawings of molecules as "cartoons" (cartoons are supposed to be humorous, not just artwork depicting some science fact). Well, Gustafson successfully proved the worthlessness of my skepticism. Principles of Surgery has been possibly the most humorous, enjoyable, and practical class I have taken.
I made a bit of a mis-step in surg lab today - one of my superiors was demonstrating the use of surgical staplers, and couldn't get the two parts of one together (he had 24 eyes bearing down on him - I reckon he would have figured it out in the absence of an audience). I started itching to get my hands on it and see if I could make it work. As I looked longingly at the parts, I realized what may have been the issue. When the superior had completed the stapling demonstration using other staplers and the crowd had mostly dispersed to the rest of the room, I picked up the two stapler parts, pulled a lever away from one part and put the pieces together. Hmm... I think it would have been better to wait until more of my classmates were gone, or perhaps to have suggested pulling up the lever to my superior instead of doing it myself... Oh, well...
One plus of the imperfect scenario was that I got to use the stapler on some tissue at the suggestion of the superior. It was pretty neat.
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