Narrative Essay On Cataract Surgery

On Thursday I got to moved over to the surgery side of the building since we had 3 doctors in the office that morning and there was way to many patients to see that morning. The tech I normally followed and help in the morning asked the office manager if I could go over to the surgery department. I went back surgery center and got to put one a paper onesies over my scrubs. I also had to put one a cap and a mask on. When I was back there I got watch cataracts surgery on patients on the TV and over the shoulder of the doctor at time. I got to watch six cataracts surgery being done from 9am to 11am. Some of the patients that were getting cataracts I saw the day before in the medical office side of the building or that morning. While I saw back there, there was an anesthesiologist nurse back there. A scribe, a surgery tech and the doctor performing the surgery.

The doctor had a computer that the equipment was hook up too and it talked and let you know how much of what it was doing. It looked like the doctor was controlling the machine with a foot pedal, kinda like a sewing machine. During the surgery the scribe would come up and explained something to me about the surgery. After the doctor got done with a patient cataract surgery he was off to the next room to performed the next cataract surgery. The next room was set up the same way and with the same amount of staff. Only people who didn 't go from room to room, was the doctor and the anesthesiologist nurse. It was a very fast pace environment back in the surgery rooms. I even got to see a new machine called the oar I think that 's what it was called. At the end of the six cataract surgery 's I went back to the medical side of the building and got asked if I learned anything back there and if I was having fun back there. I must say I learned a lot and saw it as being fun