Today our group traveled to the Morristown Cardiovascular hospital: The Gagnon Cardiovascular institute. Here, we had met with several people but most importantly Dr. Brown whom is the chief heart surgeon at Morristown and is ranked among top ten over the years for the state of New Jersey in his profession.
Dr. Brown is a very important and/or vital part of the hospital community. It was very nice of him to take time out of his schedule for us because I understand how valuable his time is. He took us on a tour throughout the hospital and showed us many areas including the brand new and redesigned rooms that the patients sleep in and the recovery area. The recovery area was sad to see at first until one realizes that all of those people are being helped from what they were before the surgery. Something interesting that Dr. Brown had said is that they are constantly adding multiple wings to the building because they can not even keep up with the demand since the number of patients coming in continues to exponentially grow. Later we saw a P.A and a perfusionist. I found the perfusionist to be very interesting because he explained how he loved his job due to the fact that he is not only hands-on but also uses his mind. I learned that he pumps the blood away from the heart, oxygenates it, slows the heart down until it stops so that the large machine can temporarily act as the heart so that the doctor can then conduct any surgery he pleases. Later that day, we went hiking in a local county park where we overlooked a beautiful view of the valley and visited beautiful waterfalls. We continued back to school while getting ice cream which made for another relaxing and interesting day. Tomorrow we will see cardiovascular surgery up close which I am very interested to see as I plan to become a doctor myself.
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