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renn_man

Blood, gore, and fluoroscopy

Mar 19, 2006 13:34

Today is the last day of my spring break. I have to say, my break this time has been rather pleasant and productive. I didn't do any school work, like working on lab reports or studying for my chem midterm coming up on Thursday, but I did get a few other things done. For example, I've requested letters of recommendation from people at the high ( Read more... )

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Anesthesiology and Stress... anonymous March 20 2006, 04:14:45 UTC

Sounds like you had an interesting experience with Todd, I think all kinds of surgical proceedures are fascinating. However, I learned in my Senior year of High School that I didn't want to be an Anesthesiologist. I was in a class called "Rat Bio". It was an accelerated Biology course which was highly competitive and selective. Part of the course entailed surgical proceedures on rats (hence the name of the course). We performed castration and oviectomy procedures in teams of 2 on live rats, each playing the part of both surgeon and anesthesiologist. We didn't have any high tech equipment or IV lines, we used ether cones and visually kept track of breathing rate... we also did a modified version of CPR if the rat coded. It was so stressful for me knowing the rat's life was in my hands that I knew I could never hold that responsibility for humans. -Tina