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I'm premed but I just wanted to know when you felt that this was for you - When you decided that you wanted to do gas for the rest of your life?
Thanks.
Thanks.
I'm premed but I just wanted to know when you felt that this was for you - When you decided that you wanted to do gas for the rest of your life?
Thanks.
During my internal medicine residency when myself, a pulmonologist, and 4 other residents were coding a 22 y/o thin, female cystic fibrosis patient unable to intubate (all six of us had two tries each including the pulmonologist 4 times), unable to stabilize the patient, then watching an anesthesiologist named ****** Jackson come up, DL the patient, offer to put in a 8.5 ETT (ahem - declined, 7.5 accepted), intubate the patient, turned off half of the meds running into the patient, give a bolus of what was probably neosynephrine, stabilize the patient, all within 10 minutes.
It took him longer to write the procedure note than do all of the above and after talking to him for five minutes, I knew I would no longer be pursuing cardiology or radiation oncology. Eight weeks later, I had a spot secured at Southwestern and the rest is history. Haven't regretted my decision since day 1.
This is an awesome story, UT. But was this at UTSW? Why didn't the anesthesiology resident on call have the first crack at intubation?
During my internal medicine residency when myself, a pulmonologist, and 4 other residents were...
You guys are really getting the point of UT's story....