Day 8: Okay, fine, medical stuff too.

So fairly uneventful day. Salvador, the senior resident on the service I am on is post call and looked a little dead. Long hard night. Just before I left the night before there was a guy in the A&E (accident and emergency department; quite British and sophisticated) who looked to be in the late stages of brain herniation after sitting around for about a day. Salvador and the on call neurosurgeon took him back, did a craniectomy and evacuated 500 cc's of clot, and sent him to the icu, where he went into cardiac arrest and died. Dammit, stop that...

So Salvador is tired. Salvador also looks a little like Eddie Murphy. Salvador is secretly the crown prince of Zamunda. "Bark like a dog..."

Had a plastic surgeon come here for the day from another local hospital. Looked at some cases with him that we wanted input on: melanoma of the foot, facial burns, and a 5 month old child with a large sarcoma on his left forearm. Should be resectable, is the good news. He may have some deficits in extending his fingers, but his tendons could come out of this just fine. 

I know, it's a little graphic, so sorry. But think it is important for people to see what people are living with and how some good can be done here by just getting people to the doctor faster. 

To make up for that, here is a random picture of a kitten:

Happy Friday everyone. And impressive showing by Peyton Manning yesterday: seven touchdowns in a game has not been done since 1969.