MY CLINICAL ROTATION DIARY-10

Good morning.

Gratefully yesterday ended on a good note. The appendectomy was on a 16 year-old boy. It was successful, so were the other surgeries previously done.  We finished at the theatre at about 05:00pm.

08:59am

Today the team is scheduled to perform some minor surgeries.

There’s this student on my team, her name is Martha.

She’d been on the team for about two months before I joined in. She seemed to know a lot, so I thought I’d learn a thing or two from her (which I did regardless). Also I felt it’ll be easier to talk wither since she’s a student like myself, we could discuss procedures and all. But when I tried asking her a few things, even getting to know her, she was a bit cold to me. She did respond sometimes, but at other times she simply ignored me. I’m not exactly sure what the problem was.

I think she was just trying to intimidate me, being a newbie.

I remember talking with her during which I referred to another student on the team by her name. Martha asked me to repeat the other student’s name, which I did because I thought she didn’t hear me.

“Oh, is that what you call her?” she asked.

“Isn’t that her name?” I replied a bit confused.

She shook her head.

“What’s her name?” I asked.

When she replied, I realized I had interchanged two letters in the pronunciation of the student’s name.

Why the long story? She should have just corrected me.

Well, this happened during my first week in the department.