Goodbye Scarborough Regional

Our stay at the hospital is officially done.  Yesterday was our last day, it was a quick as we did rounds and then took some blood in the wards.   A bunch of interesting cases: attempted suicide, breaking bad news to a patient with metastic spinal cancer, a down's man being shipped to the hospital for the holiday season.  Like I said last entry, it was quite sad leaving the hospital, we all had such a great time and met some incredible people.  Being coming, I had a few objectives I wanted a get out of the elective:

1.  Help deliver a deliver (check)

2.  Assist in surgeries (check)

3.  Become more comfortable with a needle ie.  taking blood and giving injections (check)

4.  Practise suturing (partial check)

All in all a great elective, and I will certainly recommend it to next year's first year students (some second year students are asked to give first year students presentations, contact info etc.).

To celebrate our completion, we went to a local talent show.  Some pretty amazing acts from cultural monologues to steel bands to singing.  We had a few drinks, met some more interesting locals as well as some canadian tourists and had a great night.   This morning we returned to the hospital for a final farewell and gave out some thank you cards and australian gifts to the docs.   We then went and frolicked in the huge waves at a beach in the area and because of our lack of sleep from the previous night, had an amazing nap on the beach.  Doesn't get much better... until later