II.II.IX JOURNAL ENTRIES Journal entries from my rotation in neurosurgery: I’ve been woken up at 3AM to see someone with a foreign body in their ear. This guy had managed to get a cotton bud stuck in there. At 3AM. Who the hell decides to clean their ears at 3AM? I’ve been practising my suturing technique since I was a […]
Privilege
II.II.VIII PRIVILEGE Halfway through my rotation, I started to realise what neurosurgery really entails. All the bureaucratic and administrative nonsense we dealt with on a daily basis was just clouding the bigger picture. The work that truly matters is the work happening down in the operating room. Neurosurgery is a specialty of extremes. When it goes well, the outcomes can […]