"The diary of the Mayo Resident": a poor, fulfilling four-year inpatient experience. Four-Star recommendation

The book is the author's four-year residency in Mayo. The same as the domestic book "because it is a doctor" compared to a major feature is more candid: said the individual in the initial ignorance of the hospital's teaching activities in the ethical thinking.

I am more concerned about Mayo's diagnosis of difficult diseases, but the author's work is not involved.

Overall, the author was a resident in Mayo for four years, very hard, very poor, his wife is not working, with 4 children. But the author does not regret, Mayo does not give money he also willing to do, after all, this is the best hospital in the world, the future is very bright.

Many of the Mayo cases involved in the book involve orthopedic trauma, which may be related to the location of Mayo.

Here is a excerpt from some of the book's contents:

1: Mayo's workday is divided into surgery day and consultation day, that is, either all day surgery, or all day for the patient diagnosis. I was always the second assistant during all the surgeries on the day of surgery. Occasionally art will be the solo surgeon, but I do not only help to take the tractor, is to record the post-operative work content. On a consultation, p420

2: Mark Coventry is the pinnacle of Mayo orthopedics. Haired's Coventry doctor was tall and graceful, and his innate nobility made him three points to the other attending. He is one of the best surgeons in the United States and has successfully performed hip replacement surgery for the first time in America. Even in the late stages of his career, Dr. Coventry is still the most respected orthopaedic surgeon in the United States. In the middle of this August, I left Dr. Harding and transferred to the name of Dr. Coventry. p478

3: "The Doctor at Coventry told him to finish, and then calmly said that Vauxac had made a serious mistake, and he should have taken his work seriously." The doctor in Coventry admits that there is no guarantee that he will never make a mistake. Eventually, Dr. Coventry did not let Vauxac leave, only to tell him that if he made such a mistake again, only God can help him. "P509

4: "Mr. Almighty" gave me some "crumbs" from the fingers, and he let me cut the wounds. Before me, he had been given such an opportunity by a number of primary resident doctors. He probably forgot about it within a week, but for me, this "bread crumbs" is a "gourmet meal." Think about it, I used to pick up the scalpel and cut it. I became a surgeon. P600

5: That moment I should say: "Patty, although I am very very tired now, but you are the most important in my life." I apologize for the distraction I just made. A few weeks later I would not be working in an emergency room, and our life would be the same as before. "But in fact, I said:" Patty, I, uh, I just ... "I can't remember what I said. I had supper and went to bed. p672

6: The emergency room is overcrowded. A full 15 people were surrounded by the operating table and operated for a young woman on the stage. I asked the nurse Amy Wotkins what had happened here. "Who are these people?" "I pointed my head toward the crowd," he went on. "In addition to emergency operating rooms and emergency teams, there are obstetric emergency personnel." "Obstetrics--?" What are they doing here? "She's 40 weeks pregnant." "Oh, my God!" "Smell the word," I exclaimed. p754

7: The 6 weeks in the emergency operating room cost me a lot of energy. I've seen countless gunshot wounds, amputations, heartbroken, car crashes, and death. I have seen countless deaths, and gradually death is no longer unbearable to me. p802

8: But more times we can't get off work, and there's a whole day of work waving, so we don't have time to think about what happened last night. If the patient has survived, there are other new challenges ahead of us: electrolyte disorders, decreased cardiac output flow, and bleeding from the knife-edge, which we need to deal with. p842

9: We bought a new car, a 1972-year Pontiac bought from a man near the airport. The car has no cushioning, the brakes are straight, the body is rusty, but it's very sensitive to start. For the price of 600 yuan, it is a good thing. p915

10: I changed a direction to hug her, but she still cry. "Cough," he said, "Give it to me." She is not used to strangers. "I am her father, I am not a stranger." However, I was struck by giving her to Danny. Danny hugged her to his shoulder and patted her on the back. The little boy twisted one or two times, finally satisfied with the tone, not moving. p1047

11: As a junior resident, I can get 981.48 dollars a month. For a person to feed 4 mouths, this is not a lot of money, but it is enough to feed us, but also to buy a lot of floss bread and potatoes. p1169

12: We think we should earn more, but if we don't give anything, we will still work here. We are trained in the best orthopaedic hospitals in the world-we know that we are not only employees, but also students. While we contribute to the clinic, we also acquire knowledge from this job. Although two dollars per hour is reasonable, it is not enough for me to pay my bills. p1175

13: When I walked into the parking lot, the wash-bag shook under my arm, and I could not help but create a sense of guilt. I worked here for 24 hours, earning 20 bucks an hour, equivalent to the two weeks I earned at Mayo. Too much money was made in such a short period of time as if I were robbing. p1259

14: I closed the lamp on the Mayo duty------the whole pillow and closed my eyes. I finally started to realize that it seemed like every night I was not part-time at Saint-Hens Chow Hospital, I was on the Mayo Watch. A year is almost over, I am getting used to the lack of sleep, and also learned how to treat. However, I still pray that the pager will not go off, even if I have to sleep for a little while. p1265

15: The first year of orthopedics will soon be over. I have never had as much as I have learned this year, seen so much, and have not suffered so much. The road ahead is still very long, I am just a dull junior resident, and I have to hold a tractor for a year, and I have to check the anesthesia patient for another year, and it is at 3 o'clock in the morning. p1313

16: The more I think the more angry. He's a self-destructive fool! Didn't I tell him 50 times not to smoke? Didn't I warn him what would happen? But he has to smoke! I persuaded the best finger Recovery Expert in the world to give him the surgery, but he was so vain to ruin it. For the next 10 days, we had 3 surgeries for Jason, and each time we took a little bit of nerve tissue out of our fingers. In the end, only the thumb was left. p1393

17: I feel confident in my chest, a kind of years of hard labour has finally got the feeling of return. 4 years of high school, 4 years undergraduate, 4 years Medical school, 1 years internship, 2 years orthopedic resident, plus the next 2 years altogether is 17 years. p2233

18: My wife is so pathetic. Every day I hear such words. I didn't sleep a wink for two nights and worked for 49 hours, but what I heard was "your poor wife". p2634

19: That means Sarah lived for about a year after the surgery. What the hell did we do for her? We cut off her leg and we made her ache. For what? She's still dead. What did our surgery bring her? Prolong her life, or shorten it? I doubt her life would have been better if I had never heard of the Mayo place. We did our best, but for the 100th time I realized that even the greatest effort was not enough. Somewhere in my heart, what I need is a result, not a process. Don't tell me how much effort I've made, just tell me if there's success p2801

20: Patients are not always ranked first-especially in surgery. If Mayo were the first to consider a patient, how could it have been operated by a resident? The resident doctor is no better than the surgeon's skill. I'm a general hospital surgeon and I've done a great job, but I've never thought of myself as Antonio Romero, Tom Hell or Mark Coventry. So how does mayo explain that I have surgery, especially when everyone knows I'm not as good as the doctors? Similarly, how can I get him to operate when I know clearly that Alan is inferior to me? p2855

21: Hinsdale's Hospital is all right, except for one thing: the salary of the newcomer is very poor. If I had accepted the job, I would have been the lowest-paid resident in Mayo this year. What attracts me, however, is the opportunity offered by this hospital: in the first year I was still a contract worker, but from the second year onwards I became a partner and had the right to manage my affairs on my own when necessary. I finally decided to ignore my first year's bad pay and take the job. We have been poor for such a long time, it is nothing to be poor for another year. p3048

"The diary of the Mayo Resident": a poor, fulfilling four-year inpatient experience. Four-Star recommendation