Just got back from work, I'm on call and ended up waiting for the helo to land, thought I'd take some pics to kill some time while we waited.

My Office:


My tools:

My desk:

Sorry for the quality, used my cell phone

 

Me waiting for the Doc to scrub in:

Typical angiogram:


Stone cold normal acute btw

 

what exactly do you do?

 

Cardiovascular invasive procedures specialist, RCIS, I work in a cardiac cath lab. Angiograms, coronary stents, pacers, vascular stents, athrectomies and such. Basically, I stick things into ppl and make them better (usually, but depends on the condition they are in when we get them).

 

i would not be able to do what you. i went in for a minor surgery and i was scared to death. lol. it was weirdly cold. and i felt like i had no control of what i was doing when being wheeled in the operating room. lol. then they gave me the good stuff, not the happy gas though, and all was better. lol

and are you really supposed to have a cell phone in the hospital? lol. i mean for all the germs and the radio frequencies fugging up with the electronics?

 

I thought you were a mad doctor at first

lol

 

so while i'm waitin to get opened up my doc is takin pics on his camera phone of the other doc gettin ready...awesome...and that cant be a pic of some guys veins in the last one can it? wheres that mike moore guy when you need him?

 

lmao, yea i was kinda leanin' toward the mad scientist/dr thing at first till i read his description of the job, lol.

 

Lol, yeppers, its a crazy world. Its weird, to us, its our job like any other job someone has, except instead of working on cars or computers, we work on people. There's alot of type A personalities and its a great, fun and intense place to work. Believe me when I say we're very professional in what we do and how we treat patients and just getting the opportunity to work in a cath lab is a difficult and training intensive process. I've been in CLs for 13 years now and can't see myself working anywhere else for many years to come.

And no, that isn't some guys veins, they're some guys arteries

BTW, not very people have even seen the inside of a cath lab, medical professionals included. We like to keep what we do and how we do it a mystery... for job security of course.

 

I've seen inside one and been in one. Use to work in radiology and had to deliver and pick up xrays and crap from the cath lab. When I worked in an actual hospital I had to pick up xrays from the ICU and NICU and hated it. Was all quite and dark and just seeing helpless people laying there especially the babies.

 

it must, he's got 2 niiiiccceee 'stangs

 

I can't complain, it does pay the bills 8-).