II.IV.IV SACRIFICE My time in emergency medicine was… different. It was a period of growth and existential crises, one that forced me to reevaluate parts of my life that had previously grounded me. It wasn’t so much the medicine itself as it was everything that came with the job. Despite having come a long way in curbing my superiority complex […]
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Foundation Year 2 , Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery – Journal Entries
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 […]