Morning break

This is the first time I’ve EVER hear those two words spoken to me.

Working pedi anesthesia with Dr JC today. Been amazingly relaxed but enjoyable. Makes you wonder why more people don’t do anesthesia. It’s like one part reassurance, two parts gas and meds and a healthy dose of observation and being careful. Got to intubate a couple of times and started some good ivs on the kiddos. Even got to play some candyland with one of my patients. Not bad, not bad at all . . .

So far after one day of anesthesia, I love it. The overall culture of anesthesia is great, nice people, smart, contemplative but very keyed into the need to treat the clinician right (ie not work 40 hours straight w/o sleep routinely). I also like the idea of shutting down the patient, supporting their vital functions and then starting them back up. Its totally the kind of thing I liked about critical care. Plus thinking about physiology and pharmacology, two of my fav subjects in med school is pretty nice. Finally, reassurance is a big deal in anesthesia and kind of jibes well with my personality.

Finally, I have to say that the combination of having a good day, working with good people and getting out at 3pm really energized me today. I went to the gymn, shopped and cooked dinner, even wrote in my blog! Now how is that for a medical specialty, one that adds positive energy instead of sucking it all away!