Fun

I'm having fun at Freo. I really enjoy the hospitals much more than the GP surgery. It just seems to be a bit more interesting. More things to do. Different people to look at. You can just nick off if you want to. I like that.

Anyway. It's been a good experience so far. The consultants and nurses have been generally quite nice. You know, they talk about funny stuff. One of the nurses is a Geordie and likes Newcastle. It's kind of funny having a football conversation when there's a patient with a scope up their bum.

There's this nice reg called John, and he's from PNG. He's really good, and tries to get me involved all the time. Apparently his family are in a bit of strife over some immigration thing though. It's unfortunate cos he's a really good fella. Very competent and seems to know a lot, which he tries to teach me.

Today there were some interesting scopes. There was a Dieulafoy lesion that they blasted with the cauterising thing. On the monitor it looked like Star Wars, when the Emperor is electroshocking Luke Skywalker. I thought it was brilliant!

Another thing that was cool was watching the insertion of a PEG into a guy in ICU. This guy was in an unfortunate accident where he fell off a motorbike. In the impact of the accident, he completely transected his spinal cord at the level of the brainstem. Not a nice thing to have happen to you: his function has been reduced to blinking and a few facial expressions. Anyway, the PEG insertion was interesting because they actually did it in ICU, after carting all the equipment and nurses there. The ICU guys were freaked out by the food in his oesophagus. It kinda looked like old cheese.

Fun!