 of my general practice placement is done, I've only got one week left guys, what am I gonna do when I finish? What am I gonna do? So I've had an amazing week again. Monday I saw some wounds which is really good because I love wounds, I love the nasties, I'm very strange like that and one of the wounds that we saw on Monday was a surgical wound on the chest area and he had a couple of stitches to remove and my mentor looked at me and she said oh do you want to remove these stitches and I was like um never removed a stitch before, sorry to disappoint you but can I watch you first and then I'll do what? My mentor was like Claire you're not supposed to say that in front of the patient but we had a laugh about it, it was a comedy moment it was quite funny and the patient was lovely he was like don't worry Claire if you want to practice on me you can practice on me everyone's got to learn so I was like okay so well I'll watch my mentor do it first and then I'll have a go that's all right and then he was lovely about it I was very nervous I don't know if it's like this everywhere I don't know if different countries have different ways of removing stitches but you literally just you pull it with the tweezers like a little a tie so you pull it with the tweezers and then you get a blade and you just slice it off it's a bit nervous I've got a blade in my hand I was there like um sorry if I got you no that's a joke I would never do that I'm far too gentle to even harm anybody I've done the clips little metal clips anyone that doesn't know what I'm on about they're like staples in the skin so I've removed those before no problem I did that on my first placement but I've never actually removed a proper stitch it's bizarre like I didn't really anyway it's may be a day it may be a day that I did something new I learned a new skill I removed a stitch I had some of my own patients as well so I did my own patients I have been doing a mixture of working with my mentor and doing my own clinics so doing the diabetic book checks the blood pressures asthma clinics which have been great it's so good you don't realise um in general practice how much you're working autonomously and it's just fantastic like it's your clinic you can run it how you want you've got your family time the doctor's amazing the doctor of that clinic is fantastic and he's always saying you know it's about you it's about your family work family life as long as the patients are seen they're safe they're healthy all the checks are being done all the computer systems done all the paperwork and everything's done he doesn't mind what hours you do how long you work he's fine he's really good in fact he said to um one of the other doctors he was saying what are you still doing here you were supposed to go an hour ago your little girl's gonna absolutely hate you if you don't get home now and told her off for actually staying over so that was really really nice to see something you don't see often so I'm just loving it and then Tuesday we had baby immunisations in the morning and we had a couple of blood pressures thrown in there as well just for good measure and then in the afternoon we had minor surgery and minor surgery was really interesting this week we had a couple of steroid injections into the joints which was fantastic and we had a couple of skin tags warts and mole removals so I was really excited for that because yes I haven't seen this before and it was really great like the surgeon's really good he's very precise in what he's doing and he doesn't leave the tiniest little bit like you can see he's quite a perfectionist so that was quite interesting to see and he was quick he was just like he was really good at his job he's like yeah yeah done fine see later in out in out so there's non-stop in minor surgery but that was really good to see it was great to see a new thing this week um especially mole removals oh you have to he injected it with a local anesthetic around it and then he sort of trimmed got the scalpel and just dug like a little tiny bit around the area and then just sliced it across and then the mole came off and then went into a little pot pot of fluid to be sent off to be examined by the lab make sure there's nothing sinister going on and the results will go back to the patients so that was really good to experience and then Wednesday I had the asthma and COPD clinic with my buddy mentor who is fantastic she's really good she's so knowledgeable with asthma and COPD it's fantastic so I worked alongside her with that she was showing me how to work out the spirometer readings as well actually I've got I've got a copy let me show you so this is the spirometer readings look at that how is anyone supposed to understand this writing oh gosh so that's spirometer readings so to blow a breathing test basically to test the lung capacity and the force volume things like that and you you have to minus the best from the worst and get over percentage so it's quite tricky to understand and work out so I'm not going to go into that and then Thursday we had a home visit so another wound some blood pressures diabetic foot checks again I was given a task as well to go online this wasn't at the home visit this was in the clinic when we got back to clinic I was given the task to print off some of the hand washing techniques which I'll post the link below again so you can see what those are if we're in a different country or something it might be different so share your ideas with me guys comment give me a comment if you have a different sort of hand washing technique in your country but let me know please so I'll post a link below have a look let me know if there's anything different and so I printed off the hand washing techniques and then I laminated them oh I love laminated things I've got my own laminator here at home I love laminating I love making things and then I put them up around the clinic all by the sinks for people to see and then Friday Friday I was sat with the doctor so on Friday we saw a variety of patients again from general coughs and colds someone had lost their voice a couple of mental health patients as well so just assessing their needs and referring them on to the appropriate services because one was quite they needed a referral basically so I did that and I faxed it to them and everything and I finished at two o'clock I finished nice and early on Friday so I got home did some exercises chilled out for the night I didn't nothing I didn't even touch my phone I sat and I watched Nashville anyone does anyone watch Nashville Nashville is amazing if you don't watch Nashville have a look go and check it out watch Nashville because it's amazing I'm on season two now so I've been binge watching that like crazy lately and today is Saturday and as I'm going to post another video all about the Haas scholarship but I had my funding I'm creating my blog site today that's what I'm going to be doing all weekend is making my blog site look amazing and professional and hopefully it's going to be much better than it already is so links below for my blog site if you want to have a look at it and see what I do to it and hope everyone has an amazing weekend Monday oh I'm going to be gutted next week next week's vlog is going to be emotional I said this in my last vlog it's going to be really emotional and I'm not looking forward to finishing and we'll just I'll see you next weekend have a great weekend enjoy this lovely beautiful rain that we're having go dance in the rain if you want to dance in the rain and I'll see you all next week