Day 8: Goodbye

Today was the last day of my work experience. I can honestly say that I learned so much like how I think I’d like to go into orthopedics, but definitely nothing to do with feet. I have seen so many feet of all sorts of odors. It was a fragrant experience to say the least. Moreover, today was day like any other full of clinic patients. An interesting case was one dealing with the consequences of having diabetes particularly the aspect connected to neuropathy. The patient had stepped on a pin and didn’t realize and proceeded to place their feet in shoes and areas with lots of bacteria. Needless to say, they got an extremely bad infection. Dr. Logel had suggested surgery for this patient 2 years ago, but they couldn’t undergo surgery because of heart conditions they were experiencing stemming from diabetes. It’s now 2 years later and the patient decides to have the surgery except now it has spread and Dr. Logel had to basically amputate the distal bone of their 3rd metatarsal. I just thought that that case was particularly interesting. It just comes to show that keeping yourself healthy but also being completely aware of your body is extremely pivotal.

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