The learning difference between a hands-on experience and learning from a written source is tremendous. I job shadowed a nurse anesthetist in the surgery room for a day, and I learned many things from it. Also, I was surprised by many things from following the nurse anesthetist around for a day.
Learning from a written source can be difficult at times; it is easy to get side tracked, there is the chance of not comprehending what I read, and it can make me very tired. A hands-on experience is completely different because I was right there watching what was happening, listening to the surgeons talk, and experiencing it all.
On paper, the surgery room sounds like a very intense, high-stake place. However, that is not true in all of the surgery rooms. When I job shadowed, I watched as the surgeons talked freely about whatever was happening in their lives. They spoke as if they were not at work, and they were so relaxed, I was astonished. One of the surgeons was even playing music off of her iPhone while she performed the surgery. I always thought that the surgery rooms were very strict about the way the surgeons acted, but I was proved wrong.
A written source is not going to show someone how surgeons act and perform in the surgery rooms. They will only learn that from a hands-on experience like I did. They will not find out the real truth about working in the surgical field until they experience it for themselves. Also, they are not going to see the steady technique the surgeons use from book; things like that can only come from witnessing, or doing it themselves.
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