Blogger-slacker
The worst blogger-slacker in the world, that's me...
Can't say I haven't been busy, though.
I started large animal surgery two weeks ago, and was immediately slammed with four cases to monitor. Not that they were individually labor-intensive, but the parts added up and I was left shell-shocked for the first bit. Students on the other surgery service had perhaps one or two patients to start out. Now I'm on "the other" surgery service, and have but zero cases this evening -- I'll make the comment that it would have been a better way to start clinics -- more time to get into the groove of things so I hopefully wouldn't have seemed as disorganized.
But it was as it was, and I very much think it was God's will. It was very hard at times, I was almost overwhelmed at times, I realized at times that I had never experienced a week as stressful, that I had perhaps never tried so hard and yet remained imperfect in my performance, I realized that running 7 miles would require less discipline than striving on in large animal surgery clinics. I felt at times that the minutes of my days were beyond maximal capacity -- I would have been thrilled to have done more reading about my cases, but there seriously was not the time.
I know I learned from the experience, I know I have been challenged to increase my efficiency and performance to higher levels, and there is basically no way that I should have started out on the slower service.
But that said, I am now enjoying the slower service. It's great to have time to research exuberant granulation tissue and pot-bellied pigs, to let my brain operate sanely, et cetera.
Quoting from a potbellied pig brochure:
"The days of their more active youth tend to fade away and they begin to move into a more sedimentary life style." (Italics added for emphasis) Sedimentary lifestyle. Grin.
No, I don't want a pot-bellied pig -- it's just that they are interesting and I had a PBP case this week.
Can't say I haven't been busy, though.
I started large animal surgery two weeks ago, and was immediately slammed with four cases to monitor. Not that they were individually labor-intensive, but the parts added up and I was left shell-shocked for the first bit. Students on the other surgery service had perhaps one or two patients to start out. Now I'm on "the other" surgery service, and have but zero cases this evening -- I'll make the comment that it would have been a better way to start clinics -- more time to get into the groove of things so I hopefully wouldn't have seemed as disorganized.
But it was as it was, and I very much think it was God's will. It was very hard at times, I was almost overwhelmed at times, I realized at times that I had never experienced a week as stressful, that I had perhaps never tried so hard and yet remained imperfect in my performance, I realized that running 7 miles would require less discipline than striving on in large animal surgery clinics. I felt at times that the minutes of my days were beyond maximal capacity -- I would have been thrilled to have done more reading about my cases, but there seriously was not the time.
I know I learned from the experience, I know I have been challenged to increase my efficiency and performance to higher levels, and there is basically no way that I should have started out on the slower service.
But that said, I am now enjoying the slower service. It's great to have time to research exuberant granulation tissue and pot-bellied pigs, to let my brain operate sanely, et cetera.
Quoting from a potbellied pig brochure:
"The days of their more active youth tend to fade away and they begin to move into a more sedimentary life style." (Italics added for emphasis) Sedimentary lifestyle. Grin.
No, I don't want a pot-bellied pig -- it's just that they are interesting and I had a PBP case this week.
posted by Claire at 13:05
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