Old-School Research from CDs. The opera houses MANY CDs of different productions from all over the world. (even esoteric ones) Thanks to the CD library I am listening to Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin starring my favorite baritone, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, as I write this.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni will be my favorite opera of the upcoming season. Romance, murder, affairs, the Devil, what could be better. hahaha.
Librettos for the upcoming season. Manon Lescaut, Don Giovanni, and Porgi and Bess (an English opera!).
So today was my first day working with naternal wellness. After being treated I was given a tour of there whole building (offices, science lab, inventory, labeling room, storage room). So the second thing I did was help with order that they had over the weekend. With their different products and as we were doing the order, they were telling me which each product was for. They had products from a strong ice hot, oils for pens, relaxing gummies with Cbd and D9 in them etc… then they had there meeting going over number of their business and the market and new product about to come out etc. then I spent the rest of the day helping box and labeling products that they had….
Our final day of work experience was spent presenting our research and asking any closing questions we had. Mr. Newton thanked us for the work we had done and gave us some final feedback and notes.
Overall, I really enjoyed my work with OAI and it gave me a good sense of what a career in a research field would consist of. Because I was passionate about what I was researching, I really enjoyed the work I did and learned a lot throughout the process.
Camryn
For my last day of Work Experience, I worked with Viraj to start inputting new case studies from patients in the Czech Republic into the Independent Case Reports excel sheet. It was interesting to see the other side of the research and how data from real patients around the world are used in order to collect data and determine treatment for MASCs. We reviewed the importance of attention to detail and making sure I came to them with any questions, since it is important to be precise when inputting data into the excel sheet. I really enjoyed my time with the RDOD team and hope to possibly continue working remotely with them over the summer!
Today was the final day of observation. I was observing today a orthopedic surgeon who specialize in sports medicine. So I was able to see a lot of sports injuries that were caused by things that I am very familiar with.
The first surgery was a shoulder replacement where he use 3-D printed pieces to insert a new shoulder and have the patient getting back mobility in the shoulder which is very interesting to see. The second surgery was a ACL repair where I was able to see how an ACL is first damaged and then how the doctor is able to hear heal it. This is very cool to see because I have seen how they fix it and how it’s gonna happen. And then lastly there was another shoulder replacement from a fracture.
Overall this has been a very good experience for me to see both the good and bad size of medicine. I have seen the good rewarding aspects that comes from saving someone’s life, but also the native aspects of time commitment and hardship on the surgeon.
On Thursday (6/2/22), I met with Dr. Thordsen for a short but intriguing visit. I watched two surgeries involving the retina and helping the patients overall vision. One special part of the day was when he let me scrub in and watch his work through an attached microscope. I was right next to him while he reattached the patients retina and cleaned up the eye (lasers involved).
On Wednesday (6/1/22), I shadowed Dr. Bloedon and other surgeons. There were not many surgeries scheduled on that day but I did get to watch tonsils being removed and parts of the nose being repaired to help breathing. Also, I should note that the last surgery was stopped due and rescheduled to another day due to the patients heart beat being irregular (flutters and speeds up and down).
On Tuesday (5/28/22), I again visited Dr. Lewis in Lillington and shadowed her clinical practice. I learned how to take an echocardiogram. It shows multiple pictures and different angles of the heart in order to check for disorders. A common disorder is when the valves don’t close fully which results in some flow back of blood through the heart (not good).
