So i was told I am now an official medical worker.
There was a 40 y.o. M who had a bowel exploratory surgery. He was in good shape and quite the organic food lover. I had checked up on him every morning for about 4 days so we had some report. His diagnosis was Crohns. Anyway, He had a huge line of staples maybe about 50 because his incision went from sternum edge (xyphoid process) down to the pubic bone. Anyhow, they wanted me to remove them so he could go home and I wanted to do a good job. The attending left and I went very slow to make sure they didn't hurt him (no pain meds). So as I take them out one by one, I ended up sitting on the bed and leaning over to intently pull out these staples. And about oh 4 staples to go at the bottom, I realize.... there is this hard object poking my elbow..... in his pants.... wait a minute! It was all suddenly awkward and i pulled the last staples out really quick. Then I basically bolted out of the room. (talk about not handling that situation with grace....) So yeah. Gave my first boner to a patient. Not awkward at all, especially because the nurse saw the whole thing. And she just laughed at me, no warning nothing, just laughed silently in the corner!!
All the MALE surgery residents heard about it and thought it was the funniest thing ever. Obviously, I never heard the end of it.... *Sigh* at least I know to pay more attention to the patient and less to the staples....
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