The End of the First Week

Today I was with Dr. Valerie McKinnis again. We went around and saw some of the same patients we did yesterday, but also some new patients that came in over night and early this morning as well. She was able to discharge two patients before I left for the day, but she was planning to discharge a couple more people as well. She actually had a patient that was recovering from an operation that fused their whole lumbar spine, and although I did see the operation, it gave me a since of the whole process that occurs. I had a great time seeing this perspective of medicine and being around Dr. McKinnis and the nurses was a great experience. On Monday I will be attending a spine surgery with Dr. Youssef early that morning, and I’m looking forward to seeing this surgery.