So what have I been up to?
My fellow has been away for all of last week and will be this week, so it's just my registrar and myself. Oh, my registrar passed his final surgical exams, so he'll be a fellow next year! We did pretty well through most of the week except for Friday just gone, when he was called to emergency theatre to do a laparotomy and I got left in surgical clinic by myself. (I should point out that being in clinic by yourself is not in the scope of what an intern is expected to do!) I saw all our postoperative patients and discharged them from the clinic, and there were quite a few phone calls made to the emergency theatre that went "Hi, this is BGDino the surgical oncology intern, is the surgical registrar still scrubbed in? Yes? How long is he likely to stay scrubbed?" At this point I would like to thank all my patients for bearing with me, and to my registrar who came down at 5:00pm after a long difficult case and sorted out the things I couldn't manage.
I had an excellent weekend just gone, I very much enjoy my time off work. Saturday morning I went to my German class with my friend S, and then afterwards I met a certain Someone in the city. We had coffee, then we walked over to Walsh Bay and listened to a talk at the Sydney Writers' Festival given by four authors of crime fiction about where they set their novels and why. One of the authors, Shamini Flint, was really funny and engaging and I'm quite keen on getting hold of her Inspector Singh series. I'm really glad I went: it's not something I would have though to do myself, so many thanks to my certain Someone for suggesting it! :) Then we walked over to Darling Harbour and he took me to a very nice Italian restaurant for dinner :D And then we went back to my place and watched the second episode of Sherlock: The Blind Banker. Second series is coming out in September I hear! Wooo!
Sunday morning I slept in late, then decided to randomly take the bus into the city for a wander around. I bought some food and ate it sitting on a bench in the sun in Hyde Park. Afterwards I went home and curled up on the couch with a mug of tea and Alison Weir's book The Captive Queen, which is about Eleanor of Aquitaine. It wasn't as interesting a book as I'd hoped, sadly. The next book on my list is Anne O'Brien's The Virgin Widow which is about Anne Neville, the wife of King Richard III. (Can you tell I'm going through an English royalty historical fiction phase at the moment?!)
Today was a pretty quiet day at work, for which I was immensely thankful as it was definitely a feeling of Mondayitis when I got out of bed this morning. Tomorrow is a non operating theatre day for me, and I have a protected lunch hour in the form of intern teaching. And then in the evening I'm teaching myself: I run through emergency medicine viva questions with the 6th year students.
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