So, a few weeks back, during ward rounds a patient needed a new cannula. Of course no med student will not pass up the opportunity to poke patients so I went to get the equipment and set it all up.
Slowly but surely I put it in and a tinge of red flashback appeared. Success......
...until I fumbled around the kidney dish, looking for a cap!
You'd have guessed by now that I did not have a cap! And by now the blood was pouring out of the beautiful cannula I put in.
What's even better is that since it was a ward round, 2 registrars and my intern was there!
Of course they saved me by dashing to get a cap in the end, but not till there was a 30cm diameter of redness on the patient's sheets. Which was matched probably by the redness of my face.
Anyway, a obligatory picture of IMU seniors in Sydney.
We are surely growing in numbers as more uk people head over.
There's another fun experience of being a simulated comatose patient for the AMC exams, but that's for another day.
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