January 18, 2022
This past week was a really slow week in ISM. The week before I got hard hitting news
about the mentorship. Because when I asked Dr. Robertson to be my mentor, he said that COVID
was not going to allow me to come over and shadow. So because of that, I was brainstorming the
whole week on what I should do with this whole situation. When I talked with Coach Goff on
what I should do, she said that I will need to see a surgery. I am in a health science clinical class
which basically means that I will be in a health care setting and will have an opportunity to
watch surgery. It might not be specifically orthopedics, but it is a step that I may need to take.
Something else that I did was complete another research assessment, but this time was a direct
comparison between two different types of surgery by an actual orthopedic spine surgeon. The
assessment was a big breath of fresh air since I was researching the surgeries separately and then
had to read all the articles at the end to compare them, but this way I was able to just read one
article and try to figure out a professional opinion.