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Survivors Chapter 2 (PG-13) Author Note: I began writing this in mid 2010, It was long before TWD (TV show) came out. I’m old guy and was more into Evil Dead, Army of Darkness and Night of the Living dead. …Running full tilt around a corner, he only got a brief glimpse of a large dark object. Everything instantly blurred beyond recognition and he could only hear a loud whooshing sound…

Arabella - Arctic Monkeys

Light Me Up - The Pretty Reckless

If You Don’t Don’t - Jimmy Eat World

Celebrity Skin - The Hole

Is This It - The Strokes

Hello! I just happen to know the answer to all these things! :)

The Spock & cat moment is from "Assignment: Earth" 

The Spock & Christine gifs are from different episodes. (From left to right; top to last row)

Amok Time

The Naked Time

A Private Little War

Return to Tomorrow

Plato's Stepchildren

Hmm, maybe. It's a little cliche bc one of my friends is going to be one.

Hey, 

I'm guessing you live in the USA? Things are slightly different over in the UK for my particular role. I went to university and studied for a diploma of higher education in operating department practice for a couple of years, which makes me an operating department practitioner, or theatre practitioner, which is my current title. So I'm qualified to work as a scrub nurse, anaesthetic nurse and a recovery nurse, although it is usually scrub and anaesthetics.

I think the closest you can get to this type of role in the states is going into a registered nursing programme then hoping to get a job/specialising in an operating department. If it's just scrubbing you want to do, you can do surgical technician courses at colleges I think! I've only looked into it briefly, but a lot of places don't require you to have a college education to get the job, the training may be "in-house" so to speak? This isn't available anymore in the UK, you have to have a diploma in nursing or operating department practice. The US may follow suit in this, so it may be worth doing some sort of accredited course. 

Things you should know.. it's hard work. Scrubbing for hours and hours on end in some specialities, standing in the same spot, not being able to go to the bathroom, or eat, or scratch an itch. You have to lift, hold and set up a lot of heavy equipment too. It's pretty physical, including things like retracting skin and muscle in order for the operating surgeon to see what they are doing clearly and safely, which is a lot harder than it looks.

It can be dangerous, you are accountable for any blades, needles, sutures, anything that you could prick yourself with if you aren't careful, sometimes with patients with high risk blood borne viruses. It's totally blood, guts and gore, 24/7. You get used to it fast if your right for the job. Seriously, it can get smelly and icky and gooey and things you can't even imagine. 

It can be stressful and chaotic, surgeons demanding instruments they don't even know the name of that you expected to know, high turn over of patients, being accountable for all your instruments and swabs, patients becoming unwell mid procedure, major haemorrhaging, anything can happen. 

What I like most about it is all of the above really. I like how technical it is, how simple it can be stripped down to (ie. patient has something wrong, open them up, fix it, sew them back up, success) and that's what makes it enjoyable, you feel like you really are making a difference, because well, you are. You are assisting in changing someone's life a lot of the time. Changes you can actually see and touch with your own hands, it isn't just medicine or pills, it's physically getting your hands in there and fighting disease and damage.

It does help that you don't have to deal with some of the undesirable things ward nurses have to deal with. Since your patient is always anaesthetised, no moaning or complaining! You still have to act as a patients advocate though, making sure they recieve the best treatment possible, making sure the surgeon isn't leaning on them, making sure everything is how it should be in the OR. You are essentially in charge when you're scrubbed.