Total Hours - 7
Another early morning and another early session with my mentor to complete my hours. So, today I woke around the usual time at about 5.30 am and realized that I had an appointment with my mentor to observe and get some more hours done. I got ready, tired as all hell and left my house at around 6.15 am, I left early because I had to catch bart to get to S.F and be there at around 7. I got at the Hospital at around 6.55 and to my surprise my mentor was running late because he had an early surgery to take care of at a hospital , so I just went to his office talk to the nice receptionist and waited there for the a little bit for my mentor to show up.
After some time, Dr. Javaheri arrived at his office and we sat down and greeted each other and he started to check our schedule for today and what were the different things that I was going to observe today. In the schedule there were a lot of little procedures that take about 30 to 45 minutes to complete. There were lots of IPL surgeries and also a lot of Post-Offs. The first patient was running late so we waited for a few minutes and the Doc just prepped his operating room.
Finally the patient arrived, so the nurse took care of all the paper work and it only took about 20 minutes, which is very important due to the liability factor. Then we went to the operating room and began the procedure called IPL surgery. It stands for intense pulsed laser surgery, it's a form of skin and hair removal. It is very effective and better than any other method. Before we began anything Dr.J had to ask the patient if I could observe her, I was very nervous but fortunately she said yes and so we started the procedure.First Dr. J put on a cleansing substance in the area that was supposed to be cleaned and then he started to use a mouse looking apparatus and flash the area with it. It also stung a little, so he repeatedly asked the patient whether it hurts or not. We had to all had to wear protective eye goggles because the light from the machine was very harmful to our eye lenses. The doc repeated the same step very carefully over and over until he treated the entire surface and then the procedure was over. In the entire day I observed at least 3 to 4 of these surgeries and two post op.
The day was pretty productive and I got to learn a lot and see a lot of very high tech machines. Overall it was a great but very tiring day, so
Peace Out
Divyashish Kumar
