Cardiology

Well, the holdiays are here and I'm on elective.

I'm doing cardiology which is cool and interesting, but also very advanced. I'm trying my best, I'm learning a lot. Of course I can't keep up with residents who have done this before and are trying to learn the best treatment etc.

I got to see coronary angioplasty with a stent being placed at the angiography lab. I got to cardiovert someone who was in atrial fibrillation, yeah, I got to say "we're all clear?!" and use the paddles. It worked the first time, so I have a 100% success rate hehehe.

I'm learning something about myself as well. I don't know if I'd want to specialize. It's really cool to be working with someone who knows everything there is to know about cardiology but I really don't know if I would be bored or not eventually. But a part of me is now thinking that I want to do internal medicine just so I would have added knowledge compared to doing only 2 years in family medicine. That's what I'm thinking right now, we'll see what I think when I get into family medicine.