For my selective this time I went back with my mentor Dr. Huddleston in orthopedics and followed him. Being the week of Thanksgiving I took Thursday and Friday off to be with Carolyn and Michael as we hosted dinner this year with some friends. Carolyn has the details in the family blog.On Monday I started off observing Dr. Huddleston's chief resident working in the cadaver lab as he exposed iliac crest for bone graft harvesting. Tuesday started off early at 6:30 am for spine conference in which I learned about how MRI's were not great diagnostic indicators of a patient's recovery. By 8:00 am I was in the operating room as I scrubbed into surgery and got a first hand view of three surgeries, the first being a Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) L5-S1 in which I even got to hold retractors. In the second procedure I watched an irrigation and debridement of a case in which the person had developed staff infection following back surgery so they needed to clean out his wound. Finally to end the day, I watched another decompression and even got to suture a bit at the end of surgery closing up the incision. Wednesday I spent the entire day in clinic as we met with pre-op and post-op patients. Dr. Huddleston even had me take a patient history of a lady. Needless to say Thursday and Friday were much welcomed days for rest and relaxation.
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