Last week was so busy, man do my feet still hurt. We have a board review exam coming up the day after the exam for this rotation, so I've been having to study after work until midnight and thus have gotten 5-6 hours a night for the last 7 days and it's wearing me thin. Then again, pain is weakness leaving the body ... I'll sleep when I die.
Lots of patients. Most are great, but a few are rarely just plain stupid. We had one guy sign out ama (against medical advice) because, even though we had just taken a liter of fluid out of his belly, another liter (filled with pus and blood) from the spaces around his lungs, and found two pulmonary embolisms in his lungs as well, he "felt better" and would "goto church and pray". We begged, we pleaded, we yelled, and ... off he went. He was so uneducated and ignorant, he actually thought we were keeping him there to practice procedures on him as a human guinea pig. Oh well, sayonara dude. Next.
There was one day when my resident had an interview for something, and my intern was called to another part of the hospital for the rest of the day, so that left myself and the 3rd-year medical student in charge. We rocked. Did what needed to be done. My resident's wife, also a resident in the hospital, had his pager, and I would just call her with orders to put into the computer after I saw each patient. "Okay, no problem", she would say. Gee whiz, I felt so grown up! Soon enough, can't wait. I'm proud of my decision-making thus far, I'm going to do just fine.
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