still alive
survived my 2nd full day. hmmmm what to say.
gina if you are as busy as our interns then god bless you. i find it pretty amazing how much responsibility they give interns that are fresh out of chilling and vacationing all of 4th year.
rounds i think are my favorite part of the day. i just hope i get better at keeping straight patients. i often can't focus for the 20 or so seconds of a presentation and so by the time i finish telling myself "focus" i've missed the chief complaint and i'm trying to piece the story together from the family and past medical history. that and i space out pretty often. i find it pretty amazing how attentive the attendings are to keep track of so many freaking patients down to the little details. even the interns who are doing all of that plus a shitload of gruntwork.
i hope that is something that comes with time. as it is people's symptoms all seem to blend together in my head as we go from one patient to another.
rounding is fun because i still have all of this step1 stuff fresh in my head and when it comes to getting pimped on useless pathophysiology (2nd messengers etc) I can answer a heck of a lot more than the interns and our senior resident... who are fatigued and riddled with actual useful knowledge. and happily, i am smarter than my teammate. I hold myself back and always let the residents answer first though because they told us during orientation not to be the annoying knowitall.
the frustrating thing is that my step1 knowledge is disappearing at an alarming rate (almost zero recollection of drugs already after 2 weeks) and i suck suck suck suck at presenting.
i really need softer shoes.. my feet are killing me!
maybe it's just my school but nobody seems to want to give me any scutwork... outside of my two patients... which is pretty nice, i think. i really thought i would get used more.
of course that's probably because i am ass-slow and i'm so afraid of messing up i keep asking for micromanagement and it is twice as fast for them to do scutwork without me.
medicine is kind of sad. i spent two hours today talking to an adopted patient because i wanted to get to know this person better instead of presenting on people i've never really spent time with, which is what i've been doing. this person ended up crying to me several times. the sad thing is i'm probably the only person that's really taken the time to talk to this person.
not that that makes me a saint, really who the f else has the time. when i am an intern will i care about anything more than discharging patients and lightening the workload and getting some sleep? will i take the time when i am on call with 30 other patients to find out if said patient really has the diseases on her chart, to figure out some way to reduce her 14 different medications? heck no. will i distrust and assume half of my patients are drug seeking addicts? probably.
hopefully i've neutered all of that to be a hippaa non-violation. i would write more but i've got to read up on freaking ekg's
oh yeah my schedule! 6 days a week unless we have call saturday, in which case i have zero days off! "Sunday is a reading day, we expect you to devote a significant portion of the day to reading"... wtf!!! i don't even have lunches off bc of damn noon conferences.
i miss second year. when classes were optional and i could go a whole week without shaving... :(
oh yeah if you IM me and i ignore you, it's because i'm stealing off of my neighbor's shoddy ass connection which keeps disconnecting. i didn't pay my dsl bill during step1 madness and they freakin cut my line. gonna take a week to get it back up... those fuckers.
iphone app store coming out tomorrow!!!
gina if you are as busy as our interns then god bless you. i find it pretty amazing how much responsibility they give interns that are fresh out of chilling and vacationing all of 4th year.
rounds i think are my favorite part of the day. i just hope i get better at keeping straight patients. i often can't focus for the 20 or so seconds of a presentation and so by the time i finish telling myself "focus" i've missed the chief complaint and i'm trying to piece the story together from the family and past medical history. that and i space out pretty often. i find it pretty amazing how attentive the attendings are to keep track of so many freaking patients down to the little details. even the interns who are doing all of that plus a shitload of gruntwork.
i hope that is something that comes with time. as it is people's symptoms all seem to blend together in my head as we go from one patient to another.
rounding is fun because i still have all of this step1 stuff fresh in my head and when it comes to getting pimped on useless pathophysiology (2nd messengers etc) I can answer a heck of a lot more than the interns and our senior resident... who are fatigued and riddled with actual useful knowledge. and happily, i am smarter than my teammate. I hold myself back and always let the residents answer first though because they told us during orientation not to be the annoying knowitall.
the frustrating thing is that my step1 knowledge is disappearing at an alarming rate (almost zero recollection of drugs already after 2 weeks) and i suck suck suck suck at presenting.
i really need softer shoes.. my feet are killing me!
maybe it's just my school but nobody seems to want to give me any scutwork... outside of my two patients... which is pretty nice, i think. i really thought i would get used more.
of course that's probably because i am ass-slow and i'm so afraid of messing up i keep asking for micromanagement and it is twice as fast for them to do scutwork without me.
medicine is kind of sad. i spent two hours today talking to an adopted patient because i wanted to get to know this person better instead of presenting on people i've never really spent time with, which is what i've been doing. this person ended up crying to me several times. the sad thing is i'm probably the only person that's really taken the time to talk to this person.
not that that makes me a saint, really who the f else has the time. when i am an intern will i care about anything more than discharging patients and lightening the workload and getting some sleep? will i take the time when i am on call with 30 other patients to find out if said patient really has the diseases on her chart, to figure out some way to reduce her 14 different medications? heck no. will i distrust and assume half of my patients are drug seeking addicts? probably.
hopefully i've neutered all of that to be a hippaa non-violation. i would write more but i've got to read up on freaking ekg's
oh yeah my schedule! 6 days a week unless we have call saturday, in which case i have zero days off! "Sunday is a reading day, we expect you to devote a significant portion of the day to reading"... wtf!!! i don't even have lunches off bc of damn noon conferences.
i miss second year. when classes were optional and i could go a whole week without shaving... :(
oh yeah if you IM me and i ignore you, it's because i'm stealing off of my neighbor's shoddy ass connection which keeps disconnecting. i didn't pay my dsl bill during step1 madness and they freakin cut my line. gonna take a week to get it back up... those fuckers.
iphone app store coming out tomorrow!!!
posted by Gerlad at
7:54 PM
2 Comments:
1. Buy Crocs.
2. I did a research project on HIPAA and now consider myself an expert. You're fine.
3. Three out of her four overnight shifts, Gina hasn't gotten any sleep, and the other time she got an hour.
4. Not that things are exactly a breeze for me. I've gotta prepare for a charity golf tournament next Friday, and I haven't swung the sticks in ages. So nervous!
Sounds like you're a regular Dr. Dorian :p
I shoulda gone into medicine with ya. I could have been your Yellow Bear.
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