Weekly update

I took to my bed on Thursday as I felt awful but now I have made a full recovery!

Having a really busy week so far. On Monday morning we were introduced to our next 'case'- a man who had been stabbed in the neck. We then had group discussions of the things we would need to know to treat him such as the anatomy of blood vessels in the neck, how to stop the bleeding, how to treat somebody who has lost lots of blood and how to interpret various test results. In the afternoon we had a lecture on the embryology (the study of how the foetus develops) of the heart.

Yesterday morning I was in the dissecting room, looking at the interior of the heart and the upstairs drawing the outline of the heart on each other with eyeliner and listening to the various valves in different places. In the afternoon we had our first hospital visit to A&E where we met various staff members and observed a consultation. It was a Tuesday afternoon and not much was happening.

This morning we had lectures on how the nervous system controls the heart. This afternoon we met our pregnant lady for our family study project. We went to her house and chatted to her for about 1hour and 15mins. She was lovely and talked lots about her pregnancy and her previous pregnancy and birth. Lot's of information for my 3,000 word report. We're going for our second visit next week.