-: My favorite thing about plastic surgery
is the variety of things that we get to do.
We get to operate on every part of the body
and every kind of patient, kids, adults, elderly,
cancer patients, trauma patients,
patients with congenital deformities.
And we could, one day, or even within the same day,
we could do an operation on the foot for a wound
that needs to be constructed to a facial operation
like a cleft lip and palate,
or reconstruction for cancer.
So I like the variety, keeps you thinking,
and then also the creativity that goes along with it.
No two patients have the same defect or deformity,
and so you have to always come up
with the best possible plan
that's based on that for that individual patient.
That can be a challenge, but I find that intriguing
and engaging to have that opportunity to reconstruct
each wound or defect in a new or novel way
for each patient to get the best outcome.
For me, as a resident, is probably just the time demands
of residency, we often work 80 hours a week
and still have to study for exams and for cases
outside of that time so it can be very tiring.
It's very demanding and there's a lot of expectation too.
We're delivering a lot of patient care,
we're seeing patients at the hospital,
we're writing their orders, writing their notes.
We have our attendings, our supervising physicians there
to back us up and to supervise
and to make sure that we're doing everything correctly
but there's a lot of work that falls on us
and it's a challenge to get it all done.