SURGERY! An exciting experience, but very challenging!

Wearing my scrubs during my Surgery Rotation in medical school. January - April 2005, in hospitals throughout Brooklyn and Queens, NY. This is me wearing my scrubs that I had to use daily during my 3 month Surgery Rotation in Queens and Brooklyn, New York. Surgery was indeed the hardest, yet most educational rotation during my Clinical years of med school. I loved the educational experience of Surgery, the capability we had in helping our patients (removing cancer tissues, fixing atherosclerotic aortas and carotid arteries, etc), but I despised the long, grueling hours we put in: I clocked in 92 hours per week during those 3 months. In fact, many of the boyfriends/girlfriends of my medical student collegues broke up with them, as they blamed the med students for neglecting the relationship. Well, we were required to work, eat, and sleep at the hospital everyday and night. And their boyfriends/girlfriends could not relate nor understand what we were going through. So, alot of the med students lost there loved one. It was sad, but good in a way: it is good to get rid of those who dont understand the committment we have to the field of Medicine, and it would be a disaster to marry someone like that.