Scalpel's Edge

A surgeon's notes

Outpatients from Oz

Amongst other things, I went to my first general surgical outpatients today. I attended not quite half of the outpatients session and saw the following cases:

  • Three perianal cases (one booked for theatre)
  • Elderly lady with gallstones with choledocholithiasis (booked)
  • One patient with non-specific abdominal pain
  • 14M with skin sinus over right lower rib, suspicious for osteomyelitis (booked)
  • elderly man with fungating facial ulcer present for 11 years (booked)
  • Paediatric patient with chronically obstructed kidney presenting as a mass (booked)
  • Three (different) young men with testicular swellings
  • One umbilical granuloma (booked)
  • Two patients with vaginal prolapse, one recurrent
Safe to say I’m not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

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