Groundhog Day

Everyone is settled into their roles here and we are definitely more efficient. We have a particular routine to our day (breakfast in the same restaurant, bus ride to work, fast-paced day, bus back to hotel, dinner at rooftop) that would make Bill Murray jealous. Tonight we are going out for a party at one of the hospital administrator’s house and we are look forward to mixing it up a little bit.

Today in the OR we did another seven cases. We did 3 redo hypospadias and 2 urethrocutaneous fistulae following hypo repair. The frequency of complex cases is unlike anything I’ve experienced in the course of my training. I guess that speaks well for the quality of urology we are practicing back home. We had more visitors in the OR today – a plastic surgeon from Cairo came to visit (he was also interested in the craniofacial cases that the plastic surgeons with us were doing). He states that his service in Cairo does over 300 cases a year. It nice to see so many people interested in hypospadias surgery. It is disconcerting that at the same time we will probably operate on over 30 kids who have either not had access to someone who can provide the operation they need or have complications following surgery. I’m obviously not informed enough to dwell on the issue too much and it may simply be an issue of surgical volume. Regardless, I do feel better about healthcare in America.

I will get off the soapbox now and get freshened up for our night out. I will attach some more pics since it now seems to work. We again had lunch in the OR hallway (notice the food on stretcher).

~Croth