Have you seen March of the Penguins? There's this part where the penguins essentially call out for their mates and kids. Last night in the parking lot, when I could not for the life of me remember where I parked, I had to walk around pushing my automatic lock button waiting to hear the Liberty beckon me to her!
Back on med wards.. I think I had forgotten how busy med wards is.. But, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I no longer get that "oh God, now what" feeling when my pager goes off. It doesn't freak me out that I have patients to discharge and at the same time others waiting to be admitted. I think this is going to be a great month to learn and improve my skills.
So the earliest we can sign out on non-call days is 4pm. I think I'm just going to resign myself to planning on leaving at 6pm every night (which actually means It'll be more like 7pm). I had a discussion with a co-intern in my program today. We both have a reputation for being there late. And we discussed how it seems to be that other interns leave at 4pm. Granted, it is quite possible that we're both just slow. Rather, we concluded that enjoying the best part of our job (actually talking with patients and families), means that we're in the hospital later. I'm pretty sure I could have dodged out of there at 6pm (instead of 7:30), but that would have meant not going around to peek in on everybody this evening, and leaving a few loose ends for the on-call intern to deal with.. As we were getting ready to leave, there were 2 senior residents who, likewise, were not on call, and who were leaving damn late. They are in our program. What do I like best about the residents in our program? We care for our patients. This brings me back to the Time article (see previous post). Personally, their fucking slant against residents pisses me off, and quite frankly, they can fuck off. (Although I did sign out for a subscription to fight my cultural ignorance). So, it's almost 10 pm, I had a quick bite after popping in to the gym briefly, and now I'm going to spend at least an hour on the computer working on discharge summaries for patients who are hopefully going to go home tomorrow. (Again, fuck off Time).
I suspect I'll be Marching for the Jeep Liberty again soon.
Cheers,
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