Andrea Contreras: Discreción!

Today, I went into the Quirofano again. I just realized that I’ve been following a surgeon who unlike other surgeons here; he mostly performs surgery. Other doctors do consultation and/or urgent care about half the time they do surgery. But I was assigned Dr. Martinez because I told CFHI in my application that I wanted to become a surgeon. Ha, love it. I saw another removal of the gall bladder today … what was most surprising about it all was the fact that the patient was super young! I would say about 25years of age; worst, she had 8 rocks of precipitated bile! It can be seen in the pictures (scroll down). The scar that was left from removing the whole gall bladder was so small… aesthetics! The patient ordered. Obviously, she’s young and got a full life. Then, after surgery, I lost my surgeon in the hospital; so I decided to go to urgent care to take a look at ‘fresh’ injuries. I have not gone to the hospital in two days since I had some stomach discomfort after eating from the street but I felt good today; I hope I just keep feeling better. I arrived to the clinic and there were two nurses waiting along with a patient lying on the bed. He had fallen and hit his frontal jaw; there was a small aperture under his mouth. The nurses looked at me and asked me if I could sew the man (really?!), I said: sorry, I am not allowed (nor do I know how to apply anesthesia)… we waited like 10min and no doctors came. They were probably watching El mundial (had to be Latin America). The nurse told me: I am not allowed to sew the man either, but I will do it since no one’s coming. She applied the anesthesia and sew the man; then someone knocked at the door and they covered the man… he was awake, and listened to everything but he didn’t care. They gave him a prescription of tetanus and a 500mg of antibiotics every 8hrs. He was released. The hospital was a little empty, and from the far, I heard some GOOOOL noise, so I followed it. South Africa had scored a gol on Mexico. The patients, some doctors, residents and I watched the game. I’m glad they wanted Mexico to win, probably just because I was mad yelling there haha. Ah… but they won’t miss the game tomorrow; Argentina is playing (awhhh cute).