Good morning! I work at a hospital.
That's a coincidence, because I work at a hospital too! I'm at a general hospital, and do some work in their emergency department.
Interesting! Are you a doctor or a nurse?
I'm actually a medical researcher. So I spend most of my time interacting with the medical and nursing staff at the hospital, and using medical equipment.
What kinds of things do you research?
Most of my research is on wide-awake surgery. It's an interesting area!
That's cool, can you tell me more about wide-awake surgery?
Basically, it's surgery without general anesthesia, sedation, or tourniquet. Just some local freezing. It sounds scary, but patients love it.
That's really interesting! How does the freezing work?
children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received.
A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a clinic. Hospitals have a range of departments (
a wonderful show, and there are so many people I will miss. But I'm ready for new roles and new challenges."
Character history.
Character history Seasons 1–3 First Departure (1994–1996).
In Season 1, Susan is a second year resident. She is shown to be an eager and competent young doctor working in the emergency department of County General Hospital. She is good friends with Nurse Carol Hathaway, Dr. Doug Ross and especially Dr. Mark Greene, who is her best friend.
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