Now I Remember Why I Didn't Go Into Medicine

[ILUVDXL]

Last night I was watching the Learning Channel. They had a show about children who were joined at birth and interviwed those who were never separated and showed operations to make the separation. Half way through the show I had my head in the toilet.

I truely admire those of you who are in the medical field. I surely could never handle it.

 

[EROS]

LOL, Kathy .........

So when I was 19, I was doing research on isolation of tagged radioisotopes in human lymphomas. One of the patients in the study had to have a lymph node excised from her elbow, and I asked the surgeon if I could observe the procedure in the operating room. When he made the first incision, my head started to spin, and I crashed to the floor .

Soooooooooo, please don't feel badly.

 

[Poohbear123]

Did you overcome it EROS, or does that happen everytime someone gets "opened up?"

 

[EROS]

Poohbear, by age 23 I was working with a general surgeon in a jungle hospital in Borneo performing all types of procedures; I even got to deliver 28 babies on my own . I never again experienced the queasiness which I had in that O.R. at age 19; it was just the INITIAL viewing of a human being cut with a scalpel that "did me in" ............

 

[minniecarousel]

Both of my older sisters are Nurses - of course I didn't want to do the disgusting things that I heard they had to do! So I went to school to train to be an X-ray Technician - I didn't know about the disgusting things that X-ray Techs had to do! I was mighty young and finished my training in radiation therapy - another eye-opener! (I went on to be the only technician in a clinic, doing mostly ortho & lungs! - easy, non-messy stuff!)

 

[Kermit]

My sister is an RN and can now observe any procedure, but when she was a freshman in college, she worked at the blood bank. The first time she stuck someone, she fainted. Fortunately, it was a blood bank employee she was sticking. A normal patient probably would have fainted as well if the person sticking them fainted.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I should have gone into the medical field!! Those shows rarely even gets me to raise an eyebrow. I can even eat dinner while I watch those medical programs! Never bothers me at all!

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[Deb in IA]

LOL, EROS.

It was a total hip that did it for me. I think it was the combination of those intense OR lights, the sound of the bone saw, the smell of the cauterized flesh, and the sight of the femur being sawed in half . . . plus the fact that I didn't have time for lunch and was probably a bit hypoglycemic . . .

Luckily I sat down before I sustained a head injury . . .

 

[6_Time_Momma]

Hee-hee. I did my surgery rotation without any difficulty. Then, I was observing a central line (I.V.) being put in. When they went to suture it in place, I saw the suture tugging on the skin, and that's when the room started spinning for me!!

Mastectomies, hysterectomies, and appenedectomies didn't bother me, but a suture did!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

LOL! You and me both. I do have a cousin who is a sports medicine physician. I remember her mom saying that Lisa never even flinched the first time she worked on a cadaver. My poor aunt said she was quezy just listening to Lisa talk about it! No thanks!!