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no doors
Somewhat better today. We had conference literally all morning; which was ok, because I’ve worked out an efficient way to sleep during lecture without amusing the residents and annoying the attendings...
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Stockholm
For how much I complained about this rotation for the last month, I’m surprised by how sad I feel about leaving. Almost every single night I was angry at the residents for making me stay so late. I...
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one way to find out
One of my patients is sick, and there are two schools of thought about him. When I get back tonight, we’ll see if he’s in the ICU or not, and then I’ll know whether my hunch was right. For his sake I...
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why tv is dangerous
This is going to come close to rivalling my old story about Dr. House in real life: Doctor: This procedure is really important to help us understand what’s making you sick. There are very few risks,...
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SurgExperiences, 10th Edition
Welcome to the 10th edition of SurgExperiences, a blog carnival dedicated to all things surgical. (And apologies for the late appearance; I realized at work tonight (where blogs are blocked from...
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pay the piper
Somewhat related to yesterday’s post: Today was splendid. I spent the entire day in the OR, running from one thing to another, so much so that at the end of the day I realized with horror that I’d...
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hilarious
I have to link again to Frank Drackman’s (highly R-rated) list of differences between surgeons and internists. Among them, “internists spend ten minutes securing a central line and it still falls out”...
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Arte y Pico
This is an extremely belated acknowledgment of a lovely award that this blog was nominated for by two people, an incredible honor. Thanks, Jeff and Jill, and sorry for waiting so long to write this....
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone. Right now I’m feeling very grinchy because 1) I hate modern Christmas music, and it’s all over the hospital today 2) rounding for 3 hrs on 15 patients – not in the ICU – has...
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no Christmas cheer
The day improved dramatically once we stopped rounding, and I could actually go take care of the patients, instead of talking about them. Then we got one of the requisite holiday tragedies in the ER –...
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