Random Thoughts

The funny thing about getting a bunch of medical students together whose first language isn't english is that when they struggle to come up with a word like 'bruise', they come up with a word like 'hematoma' instead.

The woman who taught me to put in a chest tube could get by as a celebrity impersonator of Michelle Pfeiffer.

During a CABG surgery today, I sutured up the leg from which they removed the greater saphenous vein by myself. Hooray for me. This elective is going well, and I'm feeling much more comforatble in this department.

Free jazz music is fantastic. There's a festival going on here which is stellar.