Soon as I arrived at the airport, I rushed to the hospital because I had a patient with ovarian new growth in complication, and we had to do remove the ovarian mass, the uterus and the contralateral ovary. I realized that even after a long time bot doing surgery, I still know how to operate.
The next night, my pregnant patient who was term, was supposed to have routine non-stress test. In the end, it was her doctors who got stressed because the baby's heartbeat dropped 70 beats below the baseline, and we had to do an emergency cesarean section. Just like my midnight operation the night before, it was the same team: same anesthesioiogist, same scrub nurse, same circulating nurse, different patient. I realized that I still know how to do cesarean section!
There is muscle memory and once you learn it, you know it for life. It's like riding a bike!
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