My most perfect day

My last post call day was so productive. My car is now fixed. I sort of miss the sounds of a racecar and gunfire as I speed down the highway with my exhaust pipe disintegrated. Makes people get out of the way!

I wanted to share my most perfect day. It will go down in the books as my proudest moment...probably ever. I spent the day in surgery with a surgeon who I'd never met. He was pretty cool, liked to joke around, and did a bit of teaching. It was the last case of the day and the patient was a 300lb young man who was having a second operation on a 'pilonidal sinus' (basically an abscess at the top of his buttcrack). After 6 of us positioned the unconscious man on his side and prepped him for surgery, the surgeon relegated me to the most important job a med student could ever get. My job, you ask? I had to hold his buttcheecks apart so the surgeon could operate.

I've had 7 years of university education for something that an inanimate object could do. Awesome.