Day 2: Last Call

4:00 am should be the time to come stumbling home from a bar, not the time to go stumbling out the door to pre-round on pediatric surgery patients. But what are you going to do? Actually I had a great day! I got to scrub in on two hernia repair surgeries (one on a little 5 week old baby!) and a cyst excision. I got to cut sutures! This may not seem totally thrilling, but my doctor was great and really tried to make sure that I could see everything. Not that I plan on doing hernia repairs on my own anytime soon, but at least I feel like I learned something. Staying till 7:00 pm wasn't so wonderful, but that's my only late call for a week. Now I've just gotta get some sleep because it starts all over again tomorrow....