In my new position at work I've already had a few new experiences that I never thought I'd really care to have, but turned out to be really amazing and informative.
One of my supervisors (my main one actually) is the Health Science and Technology specialist in the state of Utah's education. Each year they have a huge event for high school students where they watch a video of a surgical procedure and can ask questions to a doctor who is explaining the procedure. In the past two years they did open-heart surgery, well this year they did maternal and infant. The whole process consists of pre-visits to each of the separate school in which nurses go in and talk about everything, they even take real placenta's in for the students to see and touch (yes I got to as well).
This past Wednesday (April 30th) was the main event. I stayed here at the office (well down in the studio) helping with the doctors that came for the broadcast. The event was broad-casted to 6-8 different locations. The video was of a natural (vaginal) birth and a c-section. Now for those that know me, you know that I am NOT into this kind of stuff...it's not any interest of mine to go into any field anywhere close to dealing with that stuff. But I was curious about the watching the video and listening to the doctor explain the procedure. So I did watch it...it was fascinating and interesting and I definitely learned a lot. My personal goal was for the video to scary me out of having kids for awhile :)...unfortunately the only thing it did was make me hope I never have to have a c-section! Anyway, Deseret News was there (among others) to report on the event so I'm attaching the article.
Needless to say it was definitely a new experience for me, but I did enjoy it, for the most part!
The Article
Thalea Longhurst (mentioned in the article) is my supervisor.
2 comments:
When I was in high school, I remember watching a video of an autopsy being performed and also one of a knee replacement... but a live birth would have been cool! I'm not sure if I could handle a C-section either, unless I was completely knocked out! Yikes!!
That sounds so cool. I would love to see that. After talking to my friends I totally agree that unless a life or death situation I would never have a c-section. Not a fun experience from what I have heard.=)
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