living at ARMC
Ok I think it's time for a rotation blog. I still can't believe I'm home and the sun's out. For the past 5 days I've been living at ARMC working surgery. The hours are brutal, but the work isn't too bad. It's kind of like doing IM but every now and then you go into the OR...unless your attending is Dr. Davis then you're just doing "IM in pajamas" to quote Jeff Lapoint. The "stressful" part is that you're expected to know things, but no one ever tells you wtf to do.
I'm on the trauma team for two weeks and I am post call from last night. Call was GREAT! I slept for 5 hours straight haha. No traumas came in and my intern was SUPER nice and took the 2 consults instead of paging me. We had 2 traumas at around 4:30, one was a GSW and another was this dude who was drunk and got in a bad fight(was on anticoags so blood everywhere). I got to scrub in for the GSW Sx so that was cool. We were done by 8:30pm, at which point the intern told me to go to sleep lol. I woke up with a start at 1:45am and was like SHIT did they page me and I didn't hear it??? So it was a good night hehe. I got to go home at 11am so yay for me.
Typical day on Trauma Sx:
430ish-630ish write notes on patients.
630(actually more like 730) breakfast and table rounds with the interns/residents and you talk about you patients you will be rounding on w/ the attendings
730(or whenever the attending decides to round) rounds w/ attending. this can last anywhere from 1 hour to 3 again, depending on the attending.
after rounds....is a mystery to me. if you have OR cases for your attending you go scrub in. if you don't have an OR case go help out at clinic. if clinic doesn't need you go "read/study". if you don't want to study go to trauma bay and hang out--which is boring unless a trauma comes in. or you can do what jeff and damien do and watch tv at the resident lounge--but don't get caught hehe.
On call your duties are to fill out the "blue sheet" which is an H&P on the trauma that comes in which is difficult cuz it's all secondary information. docs calling out the PE or you read it from the EMT or nurse notes.
hours are 430 to whenever you "finish your work". Sometimes it's at 730 sometimes at 4. It all depends on you. If your attending has clinic that day, then you should be out at the latest 6.
confusing right? stupid surgery. it would be a good rotation if it were more structured. anyway that's a lil blurb on what i have to go through this month. my mind is mush. i was walking through the hospital today thinking wow, i've been here FOREVER. I felt like i lived there cuz i don't ever really remember my time outside of the hospital cuz it's usually eat, watch a lil tv and crash.
ok i take a quick nap. hope everyone is doing well.
I'm on the trauma team for two weeks and I am post call from last night. Call was GREAT! I slept for 5 hours straight haha. No traumas came in and my intern was SUPER nice and took the 2 consults instead of paging me. We had 2 traumas at around 4:30, one was a GSW and another was this dude who was drunk and got in a bad fight(was on anticoags so blood everywhere). I got to scrub in for the GSW Sx so that was cool. We were done by 8:30pm, at which point the intern told me to go to sleep lol. I woke up with a start at 1:45am and was like SHIT did they page me and I didn't hear it??? So it was a good night hehe. I got to go home at 11am so yay for me.
Typical day on Trauma Sx:
430ish-630ish write notes on patients.
630(actually more like 730) breakfast and table rounds with the interns/residents and you talk about you patients you will be rounding on w/ the attendings
730(or whenever the attending decides to round) rounds w/ attending. this can last anywhere from 1 hour to 3 again, depending on the attending.
after rounds....is a mystery to me. if you have OR cases for your attending you go scrub in. if you don't have an OR case go help out at clinic. if clinic doesn't need you go "read/study". if you don't want to study go to trauma bay and hang out--which is boring unless a trauma comes in. or you can do what jeff and damien do and watch tv at the resident lounge--but don't get caught hehe.
On call your duties are to fill out the "blue sheet" which is an H&P on the trauma that comes in which is difficult cuz it's all secondary information. docs calling out the PE or you read it from the EMT or nurse notes.
hours are 430 to whenever you "finish your work". Sometimes it's at 730 sometimes at 4. It all depends on you. If your attending has clinic that day, then you should be out at the latest 6.
confusing right? stupid surgery. it would be a good rotation if it were more structured. anyway that's a lil blurb on what i have to go through this month. my mind is mush. i was walking through the hospital today thinking wow, i've been here FOREVER. I felt like i lived there cuz i don't ever really remember my time outside of the hospital cuz it's usually eat, watch a lil tv and crash.
ok i take a quick nap. hope everyone is doing well.
posted by Hedwig @ 12:33 PM
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