One Neurosurgery sub-I down, two more to go. I start my second sub-I tomorrow morning at the luxurious hour of 7am. While I am not as frantically excited as I was on that first day one month ago (since I have a fair estimation of what to expect), I am looking forward to exposure to a completely different program than my home institution. I have heard that this next program is as similar to my home program as an apple is to an orange, so this should be interesting. After jumping through the hurdles of obtaining I.D, getting access to the scrub machine and learning everyone's name...I have to learn how to navigate a system that is completely foreign to me and do it fast - a sub-I who does not know how to get things done fast is as good as no sub-I at all. In other words, more hurdles. Another concerning thing is - what will the other sub-I's be like? After a month with the most likable and easy going fellow you could ask for, getting stabbed in the back at every second will take some getting used to. Because the Neurosurgery sub-I is cut throat - every sub-I for him/herself, eat or be eaten...you get the point.
And of course, by the time I am just getting good at figuring things out over there, the month will be over.
Here's to a new month of Neurosurgery.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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