Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Short (But Sweet)
Heavy rain today most of the day - P got soaked just going out to the postbox for a minute or two. The house is looking better every day - we got some of our favourite digital photos printed out as 8x10s and we stuck them in some cheapie IKEA frames around the house - it's nice to have pictures of home on the wall.
Work is going well too... day 3 now over - spent it looking at patients with complex head & neck cancers, lung cancers and presenting cases at surgical oncology rounds, and lung 'tumor board' rounds. The early starts (at work by 06:45) don't seem too bad at the moment, but wait for the winter I suppose. I'm starting to feel pretty positive about the job, after having an initial wobble in the first day or two ("Oh my God, what am I doing here? How will be cope on a fellow's salary?" etc.) I'm getting exposed to a lot of rare/complex cases which are outside my immediate field of experience, and I'm having to learn a lot of new staging and managment protocols and get up to date with some new concepts in the literature. Most things are not managed the same way as they are back home, I can tel you! Hopefully it's going to broaden my outlook and make me a better surgeon - that's the plan, after all!
Got some great presents from home today (thanks Mel, and mum & dad!), and our sightflex finally arrived too, so we can now play with our webcam in any position!
All the best (off to bed now!)
Jon
Work is going well too... day 3 now over - spent it looking at patients with complex head & neck cancers, lung cancers and presenting cases at surgical oncology rounds, and lung 'tumor board' rounds. The early starts (at work by 06:45) don't seem too bad at the moment, but wait for the winter I suppose. I'm starting to feel pretty positive about the job, after having an initial wobble in the first day or two ("Oh my God, what am I doing here? How will be cope on a fellow's salary?" etc.) I'm getting exposed to a lot of rare/complex cases which are outside my immediate field of experience, and I'm having to learn a lot of new staging and managment protocols and get up to date with some new concepts in the literature. Most things are not managed the same way as they are back home, I can tel you! Hopefully it's going to broaden my outlook and make me a better surgeon - that's the plan, after all!
Got some great presents from home today (thanks Mel, and mum & dad!), and our sightflex finally arrived too, so we can now play with our webcam in any position!
All the best (off to bed now!)
Jon
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