Medical School

Pushed

She pushed me! That was pretty much all that I kept repeating to myself as I got angrier and angrier. It made no sense to me but instead of “excuse me” this tiny resident chose to push me out of the way instead. Not only was it rude- but I couldn’t wallop her in the head because she was part of the evaluation staff. A friend of mine had tried to explain to me how upset he had gotten when one of the residents pushed him out of the way during surgery. I suddenly understood.

I’m on call and my eyes burn. I didn’t get much sleep last night working on my presentation. Because I’m on call tonight i’ll have another presentation to do tomorrow!!! Great! My chest hurts and I think it might be due to the caffeine. The very large amounts that I am using to survive on one hour of sleep.
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I guess you would have no way of knowing this but I just spent the last hour or so in a nice little panic because I could not find ANY of my papers, admit notes, labwork etc for my 10 year old female. You have no idea how that was going to suck. Anyway I found it and I actually think somebody moved it but I think that might be my Mellow Yellow messing with me (one of the several I have had today). I opted not to do my afternoon blooddraws(and thanks to a friend of mine for doing it for me) because my hands are probably oscillationg at several Htz right now. I went through all kinds of trials just to get some pain medicine from one of the nurses. She had to get it from the locked room etc. I was going to have a fit if I couldn’t get an aspirin in a hospital!

This evening was a nice little demonstration of medical school pride games. Right now there is one girl with no patients, there’s another with one patient(relatively simple), and I have two patients one that is in multisystem failure at young age awaiting organ transplant, with juvenille hypertension, prednisone induced diabetes and the list goes on. My second patient was doing well until this morning when he started to vomit after every feed. The vomit became bilious and green indicationg that there may be some infectious process.

This is where the pride part kicks in. I’m on call tonight. They’re gonna look at me like “how many patients do you want to take?”
I didn’t even pause or miss a beat “As many as come in,” I replied. And just like that- it’s on!!! Meanwhile I’m praying to God that we don’t get some rhabdomyolysis with acute renal failure or some old odd something coming in the door to keep me here until 6AM-just in time to go see my other patients. Okay my chest hurts again- i need to document it so I can see if it is associated with any events. Last time I had this was during the 2nd term of internal med when they were trying to kil me with a monster patient load. Oh well, if it radiates to the jaw and left arm I’m going to the cardiology floor.

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