This week I spent a lot of time shadowing in the clinic. I learned about burns and the recovery process on Monday, and also shadowed the closure of a spinal surgery site. Then, on Tuesday, I watched a fibula free flap mandible reconstruction for a squamous cell carcinoma patient. The surgical teams used virtual surgical planning to build a new jaw for the patient using their fibula bone. The most surprising part of the procedure is that they did nothing to add support back to the missing region of the fibula. Apparently, most people don't experience a change in their quality of life after losing a large piece of that particular bone. I watched two skin grafts as well. In the lab, I practiced H&E some more, learned how to mount slides into flow cells for automated immunofluorescence imaging, and also started practicing another immunofluorescent imaging technique using primary and secondary antibody stains. We also started a protocol to isolate collagen from rat tails, which is much more cost effective than purchasing collagen in bulk.
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This week was heavy in the clinic and OR. We started out with attending the weekly multidisciplinary tumor board on Monday. Doctors discusse...
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Compared to last week, this week was more research-oriented than clinic-focused. When meeting with patients this week, I saw a couple intere...
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This week I with Christina, one of the lab techs between Dr. Carli and Dr. Bostrom. We prepared screws that have biofilm on them for SEM at ...
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