Sterile Technique

Scrubbing and gowning up for surgery. Yes. I paid big money so that I could learn how to do this in PA school.  And now Mike is doing the same--paying big money .... and learning the proper way to wash his hands and put on gloves and a gown in order to achieve "sterility".  So that one day as a new student on that first surgery rotation he can botch it.  Because it will happen.  He will "break" the sterile field.  And a gasp will be heard in the OR room from the nurses and scrub techs.  They live for these moments--when they can make the newbie feel like an idiot.  And he will have to step back and re-establish "sterility".  Ahhhh the joys of being a PA student. 

I wish I had gotten pictures of me all gowned and scrubbed up when I went through PA school. But alas, since I didn't, I'm reliving those days through Mike.