this morning i was saluted by the hulk and batman and a bunch of people clapping in front of the hospital, for being a "healthcare hero". their gratitude is much appreciated, but really if they could just stay home so this would all be over, that would be so much more valuable
I don't want to be a killjoy. Dressing up in full PPE and doing a dance on tiktok might be great for morale, but have you considered how it might look to someone whose family member just died of COVID-19 in your hospital, and they haven't even been allowed to visit?
anytime someone on this site says “fairy-tales are for children,” the ghost of C. S. Lewis glides into their room like a magnificent sailing ship and whispers, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy-tales again.”
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
If you want something done maybe slightly differently than you would have done it but then enjoy not being on call 24/7, allow your colleagues to help.
#TipsForAllDocs
At 5am (aka hour 24 of my shift), a student asked a question about repleting fluid vs maintenance fluids and I closed my eyes, words came out, and I immediately had no idea what I said. Student says it made sense and is correct (he looked it up). Where is this ability on exams??
Seeing a consult with a TRI:
Patient yells at me for “interrupting” the (male) TRI, then goes on a rant about how women can never understand how men work so much harder than they do. As I’m standing there. Working. On a Sunday. In the same spot as the TRI. #igiveup
Studying for absite and step 3 = reviewing some of my step 1 and step 2 notes, which are filled with weird attending quotes and absurd research ideas in the margins. Here's a few:
Today:
1. My toughest attending told me that I'm good
2. I coded the diagnosis for a grown man's umbilical hernia as an exomphalos and said attending had to fix it
3. Said attending then called me an "especial moron", but lovingly. I think.
Eh. I'll take it 🤷🏻♀️ #internchronicles
My co-intern texted me that our team's list is over a page long so he messed with the fonts and sizes and borders to get it under a page.
LITTLE DOES HE KNOW I'm straight up OBSESSIVE about the list being consistent for all 3 teams and had a subsequent NIGHTMARE about it
1) Do you look at the menu from a restaurant before you arrive?
2) Do you read the H&P of a patient before you hear the presentation?
3) Are the two related?
me at 16: I want to win Emmys! Grammys! the Nobel Prize!
me now: just want to be a bear in a lil cap and nightgown who drinks sleepytime tea in an armchair by the fire, and my only worry is do I have enough wool to make Christmas stockings for the gnome family under the stairs.