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Having proved that I’m not going to kill anyone, the surgeons seemed more willing to let me loose on patients this week. My procedures included more skin biopsies, an excision biopsy, another trochar biopsy, abcess drainage, suturing. The diffeence was, with the excpetion of the excision biopsy, they just left me to it, and said to call if I needed help. It was a little daunting to begin with, but its how they all learned (see one, do one, teach one), and once you get through the first one, you can relax and enjoy the experience.

On wednesday night Michael (surgical community service doc)invited me around for a braai (BBQ). On the way, we stopped and bought a new DVD player / 5.1 stereo system, so much fun was had getting it unpacked and set up.

Finally, on Friday night, Keshnee (one of the casualty officers) invited me to dinner in Dros, a franchise restaraunt, with about 10 of the docs from the hospital. Then I had a paniced packing session followed by not very much sleep and a 7 hour bus trip to johannesburg. My holiday has finally begun