30 Something Baby Doc

Call wasn't to bad last night. Pretty much up and down until 3am. The nurses woke me up this morning and called me down to perform the circumcision on a VIP patient that delivered a few days ago. That's unusual, because staff physicians (myself) usually just sign the billing papers while the resident physician performs the circumcision (Ie. WORK). But this patient wanted the most experienced person performing her son's circumcision. I still do a few occasionally to stay sharp. But they have to realize that residents are likely to be better than staff at performing this procedure because they do it more often. But I can understand the patient's anxiety. I've seen horribly botched circumcisions before where the infant had bled out or nearly had it's penis amputated.

The circumcision I performed this morning went well. That baby will thank me when he's 18 . OBTW there is no medical reason to perform this procedure other than societal norm.

I need to go it fitted for a tux soon, My buddy jimmy getting married this Fall. I hope he didn't pick out some lous obnoxious color like laveder with pink tassels:-)