Teach a man to fish....

So its been about two weeks since my last post and I've been pretty busy.
Working hard daily and trying to learn as much as possible. Im going to highlight a couple of events over the last two weeks.

Scrubbing in with chief of Orthopedics and getting some hands on experience. I had the opportunity to scrub in on a tibial plateau fracture of a 19 year old girl that was flown from her car window after wrecking while texting. So the lesson is that you always wear your seatbelt and shouldn't be texting while driving.
Here are a couple pics of the action.

Gotta pre-drill

Sinking in the screw

Taking a quick photo op.

Getting some real hands on experience was fun and it definitely beats the alternative of standing around or holding retractors. 

Another fun event of the past two weeks was going deep sea fishing yesterday with one of the residents and Dr. Lee who is the assistant director for the program.  I got the call on Friday night at 7pm that there was still room on the boat so that I could attend. So I arrived at the dock at 5AM and we jumped on the ship. While we were "driving" in the water to our Mexican waters destination, they had a jackpot buy in for 5$ for the person that caught the biggest fish of the day. I always like some competition so I threw five bucks into the pot. We finally got the mexican waters after two hours and threw our lines in the water. Ten minutes after throwing our lines in people on the boat started reeling fish in. I started getting excited at this point waiting for my first one of the day. Three hours roll by and I haven't caught jack squat. :( FINALLY i get a bite and I reel in my first fish of the day, a decent sized barracuda. After catching the first one of the day I was off and running. Fish after fish kept coming in and I was having a blast. My second fish of the day was a HUGE barracuda that fought me a lot and took me halfway around the boat fighting it to bring it in. I got it in and thought to myself that I might be in the running for biggest fish of the day. After the fishing day had commenced I had reeled in four barracuda, three sand bass, and one calico bass (only one of those caught on the boat for the day might I add). We were on our way back and the crew was busy filleting up our fish when they announce the biggest catch of the day. NUMBER 17, My number my friends. I went to the galley and collected my winnings of 90$ (it cost 75$ to fish for the day) and walked away a happy man.

5am our boat

Biggest fish of the DAY

Calico Bass

Tijuana, Mexico

Anyways it was a blast and deep sea fishing is a recommendation for anyone that would like to try it. The moral of the story is give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish.......and he will win biggest fish of the day and pay for his fishing trip!

Til next time 

Peace, 

J