Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Plastic Mushroom

Plastic Surgery. I'm beginning to like it. Assisted with 2 plastic surgeons during the Hainan medical mission. Man. Dr. Foo could do sutures so small and so quickly. The nicest and smallest sutures I've ever seen. Not that I've seen many, but he was amazing. 

The face is so damn vascular it bleeds like crazy. 

New interesting techniques I've never seen before, like how they cut pieces of your upper eyelids out and suture the 2 ends together to widen your eyes. And how making those jagged cuts, removing the flesh between the skin and sewing the jagged ends precisely together actually helps the 2 ends to heal better and tighter, reducing the scar size. Fascinating. The world of plastic surgery beckons. 

Under local anaesthetic, when you can't feel a thing, scalpels slice your flesh apart, hooks dig into your flesh and pulls the wound open, blood and tissue is constantly sucked out by a watchful nurse, some weird dissecting equipment sears your flesh to burn tissue off and to seal wounds, yet you sleep on. Your body is a surgeon's playground. =D

A scary thought. 

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