A few weeks ago, I went to Charleston, SC for a refresher course on joint injections and management of fractures, sprains and dislocations. In a strange twist of fate, the woman sitting next to me was one of the doctors at the family medicine clinic in Bethel! (and she reports they were still, in mid-April, buried under snow & ice). We all loved the joint injection models (shoulder, wrist, knee, hip) with electronic needles that emitted a pleasant
beep whenever we correctly entered the joint space.
Winning! It was unadulterated fun spending hours fashioning custom splints and casts for the upper and lower extremities of our classmates. We even got to put someone in a football uniform (complete with helmet and enormous shoulder pads) to practice c-spine stabilization & log rolling of sports injuries on the field.
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| Cooper River |
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| Not a real squad car |
Charleston is a gorgeous city on a peninsula flanked by the Ashley River and the Cooper River, filled with historic buildings dating from the pre-Civil War era.
Charleston is also home to The Citadel, MUSC (the
most expensive medical school in the country--and no, their stethoscopes aren't made of gold. I checked.) and Hyman's Seafood Deli where you can get the most amazing crabcakes. So delicious, you
never want to leave. But leave I had to, because the tornadoes were a-comin'...
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| Best. Crabcake. Ever |
