The end of obs

I just finished my two months of being an amature obstetrics anaesthetist. Other than the sad maternal death, it was fun and gratifying.

I inserted more than 30 labour epidural. Being a person who always seeks instant gratification, a working epidural is highly rewarding, both for me and the patient. I may have inserted for more epidurals in my old place(close to 70 in the same duration), but I actually learned more here. I could hang around each patient longer, troubleshoot and actually ensure better patient satisfaction. I visited my patients through their labour and made adjustments in my epidural drugs. Talking to them through the process and telling them what i am doing seemed to helped.

I had my share of screw-ups which contributed to the learning curve!

Of course there was more to the posting than epidurals but to write about everything will fill many-many pages. I guess there are always two attitudes we can have when we are doing the same stuff; been there, done that or lets see what i can learn/re-learn.