My Internship
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busy
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regina spektor - fidelity
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It's not so bad. Well not as bad as it was for me during the first few days. Gone are the weepy and near psychotic moments when I sadly took it all out on my mother. Bless her soul and her infinite patience for her retarded daughter.
Speaking of which, there's really no better word to describe this whole experience. For starters the workload is retarded. How on earth do they expect you to be on duty at 5 in the morning screen 20 patients, make one case study and do the rest of the other equally retarded assignments for the next day? Ah well, all in a days work.
Another thing that's retarded is the schedule! As mentioned sometimes duty starts at 5 in the morning but of course this is PGH so the torture simpy CANNOT end there. For most phases we have one day off but for others we don't even get that one measley day off!
Of course the whole experience can never be complete without the retarded patients! I hate to say this but no day is dull and something always happens during rounds.
Patient No. 1 = Should be in PSYCH in ward but wasn't transferred. I had the misfortune of having to screen, assess him and follow his progress. I don't want to mean about it but I have to say the whole experience was rather colorful. He kept insisting that I was there for a shooting and I kind of think he was under the impression that I was his talent agent.
Patient No. 2 = Kept ranting to me about how my fastfood lifestyle would be the death of me. I swear I could barely keep myself and my good bedside manner intact while listening to him go on and on and on and on about his vegetarianism. But after going through his charts it was hard to keep a straight face. Surprise! Surprise! He was confined because he drank his car oil since he couldn't get his hands on any other form of alcohol.
I could go on but case studies, lecture an assessment reports await. PGH is such a circus and I haven't even bagan to rant about the abundance of creepy patients and the few occasional creepy doctors who never fail to disgust me whenever they try to hit on me. These people obviously have nothing better to do. Circus animals no less.
Ah well a few more weeks and I'll be soooooooooooo much closer to my happily ever after in my dream school/hospital and definitely my McDreamy. ;)
"Live through this, and you won't look back..."