Our group activity this week was wine tasting at a local winery called Enima located just outside the city. We started with a tour of the winery, we got to see the vineyards with hundreds of different kinds of grape as well as the factory where they aged, bottled, and packaged the wines. We got …
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How to use a Bone Saw for Dummies
Today we were back with the first Nacho, the bald one we had on Monday. I finally asked Carla (our site manager) why Nacho is such a common name in Spain even though its a type of cheese, and she told me its the nickname for “Ignacio”. Our first surgery was a fun one because …
Why is everyone here named Nacho?
The dreaded European heat wave finally came upon us. No matter how high we turned our fans, opened our windows, or fanned ourselves with our notebooks, it was sweltering: 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 38 degrees Celcius, and a whole lotta degrees humid. De’Ryonne wasn’t feeling well because of the intense heat so I went to the …
3 Surgeries a day? No problemo.
On Tuesday, De’Ryonne and I were with a different surgeon, a man named Dr. Jose Cantores. He was a middle-aged man with dark hair who spoke English very well. Our first surgery was a man in his 30s with a right knee fracture and a medial ligament tear. When I asked Dr. Cantores how this …
Orthopedic Surgery and massive amounts of testosterone
The first day of my new assignment: orthopedic surgery and traumatology. This time my partner was De’Ryonne, and we hurried over to the first-floor meeting room for the daily report on consultations. The first thing I noticed was that most of the physicians in the room were men and most of them only spoke Spanish. …
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El Fin de Semana en Salamanca
We had an awesome weekend in Salamanca! After sleeping in our crowded hostel makeshift bed together, we all got up and got ready to go explore. The first thing we did was go to the Universidad de Salamanca, the third oldest university in all of Europe. When the university was first founded in 1138, it …
Flamenco Friday
Friday was our second excursion: this time we would be learning traditional flamenco dancing from one of the most prestigious dance schools in all of Valladolid. Our flamenco teacher was a professional flamenco dancer who taught at the school. She didn’t speak any English, but she used lots of hand motions and demonstrated the steps …
Goodbye Urology :(
Thursday was our last day shadowing in the urology department. I thought back to how I had felt about urology before shadowing in the department, and I realized that my mind had changed drastically. I no longer think that becoming a “Pee-Doctor” is lame, or that spending 8 years specializing in the prostate was strange. …
Its Wednesday my dudes.
Today was wild. Not only did Saman and I shadow in the greatest department in the entire hospital yet again (urology), but we saw 4 surgeries in a row! The first surgery we say was a kidney stone removal. We changed into our scrubs and met our surgeon we were shadowing in the operating room. …
My second day in Urología
Today was the second day at the hospital, and it was just as amazing as the first. Saman and I arrived a little early for our rotation, so we found the hospital library and began to read up on the surgery that we would be observing today: a partial nephrectomy. In a partial nephrectomy, the …
Anna-phylactic Shock 