Yesterday, Thursday, I went to lunch with Dr. Hamilton (the woman I did my junior internship with) to catch up, to hear about her life as an OB/GYN, and to ask if there would be opportunities for me to work with her again in the near future. It was quite a successful lunch. We covered everything from teenage life to her hectic life to an amusing graphic story showing that her job isn't always tons of fun to about any and everything you can talk about in an hour and 15 minutes. I truly admire her for all of her her hard work and keen work ethic. She handles everything with such poise; she really makes a good role model for me.
The second part of my day, I worked at Roper in the ER for a couple hours. It was another exciting day in ER, like so many are. I heard an interesting story about how a man asked a nurse to print him a map to the slave market in Charleston because he was trying to take his wife to it, so he could get rid of her (the slave market in Charleston is obviously no longer active), I saw an adorable 97 year-old woman who was having heart troubles, I helped clean down and sanitize rooms, I got to see how the psych room operate because there was a patient in there who tried to commit suicide (he also spilt his urinal all over the floor and left skid marks on his sheets... it was gross, but he can't help that he's that sick. It's sad), I talked with the nurse and a patient who most likely had appendicitis, and I saw a woman get a CT scan. I also got to go with nurses when they moved the 97 year-old woman to the cardiology floor. It was such an incredible day. I enjoy working in Roper Hospital and getting to interact with the patients so much; there's always something exciting there.
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