So until I unpack my webcam, dust it off, and let's face it, remember how to use it, I will continue to post pix from my last 1.5 yrs. I'm in the middle wearing the Mexican sash. Aye! Aye!
Onto the story:
Today one of my patients (remember, they are mostly newborn babies) needed a circumcision before he was ready to go home. It's standard practice for babies to have this done before they leave the hospital.
So as weird as it sounds, OB/GYNs perform circumcisions...not the pediatricians or neonatologists. We actually leave this delicate job to doctors who don't even deal with babies on a regular basis!
Are you unsettled yet?
So I'm in the NICU today and a nurse comes up to me and grabs my arm hard, looks me in the eye and says, "Baby M won't stop bleeding from his circumcision. He's still in the procedure room, can you come take a look?"
Ali's thinking-- "uhhhhhhhh."
So I rush to the room and see the poor kid strapped to the board, sucking away on his pacifier with his poor pee-pee tip hacked off and bleeding. It was the most pathetic thing ever. The doc is applying silver nitrate to the baby's member and putting pressure on it. Of course there is nothing anyone can do but stand there and say "awww." But you know me...I can't help myself. I have to make jokes.
I start using my silly voices, speaking for the baby saying "That's okay guys, it's just my pee-pee, I don't need it for anythi-- wait! yes I do! ahhhhh!"
Poor kid. In the end we got everything under control. I had to call his parents to let them know. Hopefully no one will get sued!
I learned in PA school that, contrary to popular belief, most men are NOT circumcised. I now know why.
:)
Onto the story:
Today one of my patients (remember, they are mostly newborn babies) needed a circumcision before he was ready to go home. It's standard practice for babies to have this done before they leave the hospital.
So as weird as it sounds, OB/GYNs perform circumcisions...not the pediatricians or neonatologists. We actually leave this delicate job to doctors who don't even deal with babies on a regular basis!
Are you unsettled yet?
So I'm in the NICU today and a nurse comes up to me and grabs my arm hard, looks me in the eye and says, "Baby M won't stop bleeding from his circumcision. He's still in the procedure room, can you come take a look?"
Ali's thinking-- "uhhhhhhhh."
So I rush to the room and see the poor kid strapped to the board, sucking away on his pacifier with his poor pee-pee tip hacked off and bleeding. It was the most pathetic thing ever. The doc is applying silver nitrate to the baby's member and putting pressure on it. Of course there is nothing anyone can do but stand there and say "awww." But you know me...I can't help myself. I have to make jokes.
I start using my silly voices, speaking for the baby saying "That's okay guys, it's just my pee-pee, I don't need it for anythi-- wait! yes I do! ahhhhh!"
Poor kid. In the end we got everything under control. I had to call his parents to let them know. Hopefully no one will get sued!
I learned in PA school that, contrary to popular belief, most men are NOT circumcised. I now know why.
:)