The God Complex

So of late, I've been musing on specialties....specifically surgery. Surgery is possibly the one of the most fascinating specialties with truly talented hands and minds at work everyday. Its really no wonder these people have a penchant for the God complex, they find a problem, they cut you open, they cut out the problem, they sew you up. The field holds absolutely no future for me, the ADD princess who can think of a thousand better places I'd like to be during an 8 hour surgery than standing in an OR, behind a mask, gently shifting from leg to leg hoping I dont forget how to walk cause my legs have officially gone numb.
Having said that, I want to mention a particularly interesting surgery we just saw yesterday that excited me....A 10 year old boy has had several surgeries in the past for Hypospadias (urethral opening on the ventral side of the penis) and subsequently has now developed numerous fistulas (abnormal tracts in the skin) and more seriously, a bent penis. So these ingenious doctors set out to perform "Brocca's" procedure to fix him. Basically, they split his penis up the ventral (bottom) side, cut off all the scar tissue causing the bending, continually inducing artificial erections to monitor the angulation of the penis and then inflated his foreskin, cut a piece off and used it to make a new urethra for him. How crazy is that? Now really, to be able to literally dissect a young man's sacred parts and put them back together again is truly an unparalleled talent. We as students, in our eagerness to get home and sleep, eat or something else that seemed ridiculously important at the time sometimes downplay how crazy the field we're going into really is. We can try to fix you but not to worry, if we cant, we'll just take you apart and put you back together again ok? Now just sign your life away right here on this line......