med surg

ok i cant remember if i blogged for the past 2 wks or not...my 1st week of med surg i was on 4G at NEMC and i had an interesting pt and i learned alot, my 80 yo pt had a GI bleed and had many scans and xrays and i was able to go to endo w/ her and saw an EGD and colonoscopy which showed ischemic colitis, she ended up having to have a resection of part of her bowel.....2nd week at NEMC on 4G i had a 54 yo pt who was there for possible pancreatitis, after all his tests and labs they confirmed that he had acute pancreatitis, he was an interesting pt, he was nice to me but irritable about being in hospital bc he was there for so long and it took a while for the GI doctors to figured out what was wrong and also bc he was npo the whole time he was there bc everything he ate made him throw up, once they advanced him to clear liq diet i ordered him some jello and he was estatic and kept thanking me, he was funny.... so far i have had 2 good weeks of clinical at NEMC medsurg and im looking forward to Peds this week at NEMC!!