Week 2 Reflection

This week was truly one for the books! I had the most amazing day with Dr. Hennig at Advanced Orthopaedics Specialists in Gilford and Hillside Surgery Center. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were spent in the office with Dr. Hennig and Thursday was spent in the OR. Even though the OR is by far one of my favorite places to be, I was very surprised by how much I enjoyed the days in the office. When I am in the office I am able to see a wide variety of patients with varying injuries which is super cool because although the OR is fascinating for many other reasons, I'm only able to see 3-4 patients.

Its difficult for me to choose a highlight of my week, I loved every aspect of it. Even when I'm the office between patients it's so interest just looking around and watching all the nurses and doctors buzzing around in their routines. Probably my favorite part of the week was the last surgery I saw on Thursday, a capsule repair on a patient with multidirectional instability of his shoulder. The vision scopes of the knees I witnessed on Friday were certainly a close second though! It is just so mind blowing how far we have come with technology that we are now able to stick a camera in a patients joint without needing to go into the OR. Not going to lie, although it would be costly and a waste of resources I would love to just sit down and have a vision scope of my knee done, and be able to sit their and look around inside of my knee! My low point of my week was definitely Tuesday morning, simply because I was unable to go to the doctor's office for the day.

One of my favorite parts of hanging out all week with Dr. Hennig is the amount of knowledge I have taken in. Between simply shadowing and reading the textbook lent to me, I found myself narrowing down the type of injury the patient could have based upon his/her symptoms! I cannot get enough if it, if I'm not in the office I'm off somewhere flipping through my book. Looking at this coming week I am very excited for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday which will all be spent in the OR, but I am a little disappointed that since Dr. Hennig will not be in Monday, I will only be able to spend Friday in the office, time that I have learned to adore. It's a little bittersweet that this coming week will be my last week with Dr. Hennig because I have had such an educational and exciting week which has gotten me very excited to pursue my own career in Orthopedic medicine!