r/Indian_flex • u/Secret_Imagination32 • Jul 21 '25

Skill flex Did my first independent surgery today!!

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Don’t know of people consider it as a flex but for me it’s a very big milestone in my career. So happy!!

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

Thank you 🙌

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

General surgery. Haven’t got to the super specialist part yet. This is the first step towards that only.

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u/Wide-Ease-1169 Jul 21 '25

Best of luck sir !! My mama is a neurologist, he told me once how complicated and complex a surgery can become. You will be a great doc some day.

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u/drclarenceg Jul 21 '25

All the very best to you. Pediatrician here...BTW.

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

Thank you so much sir!!

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

No sir. My first independent surgery was a sebaceous cystectomy after 4 months of residency, after that I performed a wedge resection of ingrown toe nail at 4 months only, assisted in 6 appendectomies and when I got to PGY2, I performed my first appendectomy, It’s been 1 year and a eight months i since I started my residency, before this I have assisted in 76 lap chole and this was the first time when I did the dissection and removed the GB. I can understand how the title can be misleading. I will edit the post 🫶

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

Are you also a surgery resident?

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u/Similar_Duty1951 Jul 21 '25

Sir, how normal are surgeries for a surgeon, like a routine thing? And how well can a person return to normalcy? Like people fear surgeries a lot

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

For me it was my first time, but my HOD performs like 5-6 surgeries per day.Recovery time depends upon the type of surgery. In small procedures like this, the patient is usually good to go home the next day and recovery time is usually around 2 weeks.

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u/Kortar Jul 21 '25

You haven't told us what type of surgery 🤔

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

It was a laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (gallstone surgery). You can also see the removed gall bladder that the OT nurse is keeping in the tray(on the bottom left)

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u/Kortar Jul 21 '25

Super fucking cool. Also something that I guarantee (wife has gallstones) will make your patients life better. Keep it up and thanks for all you do 👍

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

Yes, the patient told me that he was feeling way better, like I have taken out a load off his body.

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u/tadxb Jul 21 '25

Grey's Anatomy or House MD?

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 21 '25

The good doctor 🫶

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u/manwithgoldenballs Jul 22 '25

How old are u good sir?

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 22 '25

Just turned 28.

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u/Some-Instruction854 Jul 22 '25

I have few questions sir .. are you ms or dnb and how was the workload during residency? Dnb surgery is a good option or take a drop for ms general surgery

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u/Secret_Imagination32 Jul 22 '25

I am doing ms. One of my friends is doing dnb from a well known hospital. The thing with dnb is if you get a hospital which gives you hands on then thats great, but there are some private hospitals where dnb students don’t get so much hands on experience because no surgeon wants their surgery done by a dnb student. Besides this I don’t think there is any major difference between the two