By F1doc
I can't quite believe it, but apparently it is time to switch rotations again. On Wednesday I will have completed 2/3 of FY1 which means that in just 4 months I will be an FY2. Fresh faced graduates will be shadowing me for a week and expecting me to have all the answers. All seems so strange.
I have to be honest about my second rotation, I was dreading surgery and for the first few weeks that dread was a reality. I didn't like my job much and I got anxious about the day ahead. Mainly because it was such a shift from medicine which I had come to know and love.
4 months on and I am actually sad to leave surgery. Now don't get me wrong- I ain't no surgeon. I actually laughed out loud a few weeks ago when a patient invited me to sit on her bed and chat with her. " You don't want to do surgery, do you dear?"
"No, I said"
She smiled at me and replied " I thought as much".
But despite not wanting to be a surgeon there are many things I will miss about being a surgical FY1:
Ward rounds are quick which means you have time to do your jobs during the day and I mainly leave work on time.
I worked in an office with other FY1's which meant I got to make good friends and it was very social.
A lot of patients were young and relatively well, after their surgery they got better quickly and went home.
It taught me to be less squeamish- after having bile thrown up onto my shoes, a stoma explode in my hands and seeing more pus filled abscesses than I though possible I can honestly say that there isn't a bodily fluid that will stop me eating my lunch any more.
So it is with some sadness that I leave the past 4 months behind me, but only some, because my final FY1 rotation is psychiatry. The dream!
