VAS-COOL-LAR

When the junior doctors get together, we enjoy nothing more than comparing the different surgical teams and consultants. Well, I lie. My friends enjoy ridiculous amount of alcohol (yea, don't start) and alcohol makes everything funny and people laugh (and/or cry but let's not go there).

And what is not funny about the orthopaedics?

I love my vascular rotation but we never have jokes as funny as the orthopaedics do. Two of the best so far belong to them.

What is the difference between love and osteomyelitis?
Osteomyelitis lasts forever.

What is the function of the heart according to an orthopaedic surgeon?
To pump cefuroxime.

If you don't laugh at those, fine, you're not lame/cool (depending on how you look at it) but these are the jokes told by the registrars themselves. You gotta love them for loving the jokes.

I love my vascular rotation but we're not the jocks of the surgical wards. Not in a long long time. But the vascular service in BVH is still growing. My consultant came here 5 years ago and is responsible for turning the service to what it is now.

5 years since the hospital now offers, among others, distal bypasses surgeries, EVARs and a modern vascular lab; all of which did not exist back then.

So yes, when they were awarded the Best Service Transformation award, he jumped up and high-fived the rest of the team but he deserved to. All lights turned to the vascular table.

Absolutely no idea where the orthopaedics were sitting.

Congratulations to the vascular team :)