Yesterday was our first call with the current team. Our new resident, my co-intern, me, and two eager medical students. Its amazing to see the students in this situation and know that barely 1 year ago, I was in their same shoes, eager to help out and trying to impress their resident and attending. Its exciting to be in that position to be a role model and try to teach the students. Unfortunately, not sure how much I am teaching them at this point!
Long call, like life, is made up of slow parts of the day, when there are no patients being admitted, rounds are done, and notes completed, you are messing around with the team-- to 30 minutes before call ends and you end up with a bunch of new patients. At least thats how it seemed yesterday. Going from thinking we'd be out of here and going home to sleep, to being lucky to get 1.5 hours of sleep is a sharp mental hurdle to get over. The worst is when you don't have a call room key and you're left pondering if sleeping in the car is the best option. Or when you have a patient that is on 50 medications and you have to go through them 1 by 1. But we got through it, and now I'm still up typing. In 4 days, the cycle will repeat itself, and I'll be hoping to go faster. and get some sleep. Still wondering how we fit in reading and studying as an intern.. thats for another night.
4 comments:
Cool blog! Look forward to reading more.
Love,
K
YAY! Glad to have a way to keep in touch. Happy to hear that you've settled already... No more pics of Portland, please :)
Hey Brian! I'm so glad you're blogging about residency. It definitely makes me scared, but I'm glad I'll know what to expect. Good luck and please keep writing!
xo Aly
dude - loved reading this and getting some insight into what your life is like right now.
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