a little more perspective

Today was a long day, but I learned a lot.

We had our morbidity and mortality report today. My poor residents...they try to do right by their patients, but sometimes they lie...very very poorly at the risk of their careers. I know I make everyone on the service sound like assholes, but seriously, they're all good people who bust their ass day in and day out. They always know what's going on with their patients and they're the ones coming in at 4am and taking call Q2.

Then we had a didactic lesson on male infertility...complete with testicular disappearing syndrome and rectally placed charges to induce emission...good times and laughs all around.

Lonecoyote...you've given me a lot of perspective. Yea...the peds uro doc. You're right. He is a pig, but for some reason he seems to be putting up with me. I'm sorry that you had such a bad experience on his service. There really isn't a similar thing for guys...we don't fit in on ob/gyn, but at least we get treated equally well. It's a pretty sexist system and it sucks that you have to play that game to do well.

I think this week has helped me to settle down a little. I'm a little less excited and a little more tired. Peds urology has been a nice balance between the surgery stuff and the little kiddy stuff I really enjoyed on peds. Today was kind of a nightmare. Actually, a lot of the procedures performed on the kids are nightmares. They're well-intended by the docs and the anal/psycho parents. The kids have no idea what they're getting into. It's like giving your kid type 1 diabetes. You empower them to take care of their help. For peds uro, they have to catheterize their own foley, etc. If they don't take care of it, their neo-bladders can bust and they can die from peritonitis. If they don't follow up, they might die from cancer. Complications...these poor kids. I love them to death. I really do. Signing off.

-bender