So yeah, I didn’t exactly know that the General Surgery Basic Science conference actually started at 6 a.m. and not 7 a.m., so I missed that. What did happen at 7 am. though was the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference where surgeons from all the fields (vascular, CT, general, peds) present patients who they either killed or made worse by their care. When I walked in I could certainly see a stark difference in atmosphere between these guys and the ortho guys. These guys just looked sad and very tired; I’m not sure if I can jump to that conclusion but it was certainly palpable.
So I heard about some interesting cases but the thing that stuck out to me the most is that they seemed to still talk about a lot of internal medicine stuff like acid-base, fluid status, etc. But they also took them in and tried to fix what couldn’t be fixed with medicine. I really liked that about what I heard; it seemed like the General Surgeons could be a pretty good internist, and a great surgeon at the same time. So yeah, I think I’m interested in General Surgery again…I just need to do some research.
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