well... if you want the whole story, i was shadowing a cardiologist who works among the Imperial hospitals,
Tuesday- cardiology ward round, catheter labs to watch key hole surgeries for testing the pressure of a lesion in the coronary artery, applying a stent to a lesion, and using a balloon to widen a valve, and standing in on some BRUCE tests
10am-5pm
Wednesday - cardiology ward round, echodepartment to watch ultrasound and Doppler usage for hearts and some random test that increases heart rate to look fro problems, then to the MRI research base to watch some scans and all
8am-5pm
Thursday - cardiology ward round, then to the cardiac centre to watch a pacemaker installation, pacemaker changing, cardioversion (a bit like defibrillation), a TOE, tests to see if tissue in the heart needs to be cauterized due to short circuiting, atrail flutter ismus? ablation, then to the intensive care unit, then to the renal unit
8am-5.15pm
Friday - the cardiology ward round again, watching 6 hours of open heart surgery for a mitral valve replacement as well as detaching the heart from the sternum, and then back to the catheter labs to watch the changing of the wires and installation of a new cardioverter-defibrillator,
8am-7pm
i may have missed out some but y'know
all in all i thought it was really good, my consultant said i'm the second person he's ever taken on who he didn't personally know, and who he didn't interview (i couldn't do an interview being i live in Cornwall/Devon)
Pluses; being able to go right into the surgery and look at everything really close up, talking to the junior doctors on the ward round, being mistaken for a medical student was hilarious
Not so pluses; wearing 'leads' makes you ache, having to take off scrubs to go to lunch, that all the doctors dissuaded me from going to uni in london, the fact that i had to leave
was great though
tl;dr - heart stuff