so i was reminded of something really important i need to reflect on by one of my all time favorite people in the world- how does my experience stack up to TV versions of the OR?
(side note: this favorite person of mine recently moved to a very cold, icy place in the far north and is writing the great american novel about her new life among the Inuit people and is also (in her spare time) being the lone voice of news (and hope!) for a rural fishing outpost all while wrestling brown bears and mining for coal...and oil...and gold...and riding whales and then burning their fat for fuel and using their umm....eyelashes for...er... ink.. i might tend to exaggerate her accomplishments and live her adventure vicariously through her and she most certainly exaggerates mine and lives my medical career experiences through me. she says she wants a boob job when i graduate and God save her, if she trusts me to potentially maim her for life, i say it's the least i can do. anyway....)
so she was musing today about how cool it would be if my experience was like that of gray's anatomy's interns' experiences. in that image, i would be getting shuffled into linen closets for romps with my attendings, i might fall in love with a patient and thusly cause his death, perhaps help my gimpy wounded hero/lover with intricate vascular surgeries as he recovers from neuro damage, maybe even fall madly in love with a married gay troll and lose all of my mental power and dialogue to the cause of winning him back....hmmm....
it is amusing to me how everyone looks so fresh and clean and wide awake on that show and in reality we're all without makeup, often covered in blood/feces, wearing masks and hair nets and shoe covers, and tired as hell. i don't feel much romance in the air, i tell you what. the only drama is work related from what i've seen, and there has yet to be a bomb or river boat collision. attendings are old married men none of whom can really be described as "Mc-anything appealing."
sorry to piss on your parade, if the plotlines on gray's made your life worth living or something, but i'm relieved to find my experience has been wholly w/o drama, sexual harassment, or manic muffin baking.
but this is still my first rotation, there's still time.
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