It's getting to be that time of year again...five short months until the next fresh batch of interns appear. This means I have, of course, had my feelers out for those I'd like to recruit into County's surgical program. There's a little hotshot out in San Francisco that has already published an impressive paper. Not even out of med school yet ( Read more... )

Because someone saw fit to gift me with the three most lackluster, idiotic, uncoordinated med students in all of Chicago. Not only were they unprepaired for being on the surgical floor, they had no concept of procedures. It was like herding a little flock of clueless sheep all day. Sheep that had been lobotomized. Shirley actually had to show ( Read more... )

We had our departmental Christmas/Chanukkah/Kwanza what have you party yesterday. I may or may not have had one too many candy canes, they are addictive. Beyond that (and no, Dustin, there really was not anything even remotely alcoholic in that punch) I did have the chance to announce County's paired organ donor program. It's the only one in ( Read more... )

I'm all for interdepartmental comradery, and I hope certain people noted the efforts of several of my staff members in that vein, however...Tofurkey? And um, I'd like to state for the record that there is nothing wrong with a surgeon being an omnivore. I love a good medium rare burger as much as the next guy and on Thanksgiving, I like actual ( Read more... )

Let's review, shall we ( Read more... )

( See what I was doing today? )

A professional regurgitator? Swallowed a lightbulb...whole. And for the sole purpose of expelling it orally once more. I'm not even going to contemplate the hows and whys of the situation but that has to be one of the more peculiar foreign body removals we've seen in a while. I was more than happy to let Albright have the case, though I did ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin regarding today's shift. I just don't ( Read more... )

You know, I don't feel so bad for my "Things I made the Residents do Today" lists any more. I grabbed a sandwich with Dr. Anspaugh and he was enlightening me about some of the, well, utter bullshit Dr. ROmano used to pull ( Read more... )

So some people have inquired as to why I refused to go down to the ER today, others have wanted to know why I was in such a foul mood last night. I still stand by my initial comment that the ER is nothing but a pit of voles. Vicious, unrelenting, illogical little malcontents who derive an unholy amount of pleasure from making my life hell when I ( Read more... )