English to Italian Medical Medical: Cardiology operazione al cuore, macc

My first month in the cath lab felt a
lot like internship—except
now I was in my thirties, married,
and seven years into my medical education. If I asked whether
a patient needed preoperative blood work, Rhoda or her assistants
would act as if I were
stupid or arrogant because
it was
in their protocol, and they had been doing
it for years, and
shouldn’t
I know this, and who was I to tell them what to
do?There
was so much to see to: take a history, examine the
patient, X-rays,
bloods, consent, and so on. The rhythm of the
day got digitized into tiny to-do boxes, to be filled in at every
hour.