Pre-med needs help with urological terms for personal statement

[markboonya]

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Hi, i am writing my personal statement right now and i wanted to touch upon a specific example from my experience shadowing a urologist in the OR. I remember during one procedure (he was using an endoscope.. i forgot what the exact procedure was) and he was yelling at a nurse for hanging the wrong platic bag (filled with some clear liquid) on that metal rod (i am assuming based on TV that metal rod is the same rod that IV bags are suspended on). so my question is whats that metal rod thing called? what is the clear fluid in the bag called? he made some big deal about it being hung at a certain height so gravity can drive the fluid out... i noticed that water is always being pumped in with the endoscope.. is that what the fluid is for? is it water? saline? ringers? any other possibilities?
I just wanted to lend some specificity to my personal statement to give it a nice touch. My point with this story for my personal statement was that the nurse was intimidated by my preceptor's sometimes intimidating manner, and her uneasiness caused mistakes.

any help is much appreciated! thanks!

 

[beanbean]

Writing about negative behavior by a physician is really not the best thing to be talking about in your personal statement. Although your preceptor's behavior may have been intimidating or rude, writing negatively about other health care professions is frowned upon. I had a very difficult experience as a patient when I was left in a recovery room by a nurse who had disconnected to the suction for my chest tube. She then yelled at me because I was hitting the side of the stretcher trying to get someone's attention. The terror of not being able to breath is beyond words and this experience taught me a great deal about the type healthcare provider I do not want to be. I had initially included this episode and the subsequent actions of my physician to rectify the situation in my PS. I was advised by several people to leave it all out and focus on some postive examples of healthcare workers and their effects on patients. Everyone knows that there are plenty of jerks and incompetent people in medicine, the PS just really isn't the place to discuss it.

 

[EM Junkie]

Procedure: probably a cystoscopy
Fluid: probably saline (isotonic, water would be hypotonic)
Metal rod : is called a metal rod