The Start of the Last Week

I was with Dr. Anderson all day in clinic and while he was one call, and it was pretty eventful from my standpoint. Clinic brought a variety of cases in, from simple post op checkups, to removing pins and popping cysts. There were two patients that came in who had pins placed in their hand, and needed them to be removed. Instead of a long, complicated process to get them out, Dr. Anderson pulled out a pair of sterile vice grips, wiped the area with an alcohol pad, and then pulled the pins out. Generally they came out easily, but one of them brought the patient quite a bit of pain and Dr. Anderson thought this may have been because it got a little bent since he put it in. Also, a patient came in with a ganglion cyst, and was okay with the doc drawing out the fluid in the office, so that’s what happened. The fluid that came out was a jelly like substance, and it was kind of disgusting to be honest. The other pieces of the day consisted of more clinic and some call visits. We visited an older gentleman in inpatient that was having severe gout problems, so Dr. Anderson pulled about 8ccs of fluid off of his knee to be sent for labs, and then injected cortisone into his wrist and his knee. We also had a case in the ER, but this was a simple consultation of how to treat a break in the wrist, and scheduling a follow up appointment at Dr. Anderson’s office.