Let's start with the petty stuff first. My co-Chief and I have restarted our program's Journal Club. One of the asshat R2s volunteered for the presentation about 2 weeks ago. The date for the presentation was known at that time. Then, Sunday morning, barely 24 hours before the presentation was to take place, he sends me a text letting me know that ( Read more... )

Holy shit. I just had the toughest 4 days of work. I had to work Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday as the attending for TWO teams (well, one and a half). I essentially supervised residents taking care of 17 patients every day. It wasn't too terribly bad until yesterday, Christmas, when the senior resident who was supposed* to come in forgot he ( Read more... )

I guess I should type a bit about my vacation (and about how my family did end up driving to the airport to pick me up, which I really appreciated). I had a good, relaxing time, overall. But then, I got sick on my way back home (after missing my first flight through no fault of my own and therefore my layover and having to take an extra flight to ( Read more... )

I think I'm gonna start using this thing as a place to air my (sometimes petty?) grievances.

As a Chief Resident, I'm supposed to meet with new senior residents when they're on the wards to...I dunno, go over tips for how to be a successful senior resident? Hold their hand? Fuck if I care.

Anyway, there's this whole fucking curriculum that these ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since my last post and a shit ton of noteworthy events have unfolding in the interim: realization that I wouldn't miss really anybody in my med school class (but almost cried at my last rugby practice), I graduated from medical school, moved to a new city, visited my dad (the trip there was a drama-filled 15 hours with my ( Read more... )

My mother, sister, and I went shopping yesterday at a used bookstore quite a ways from our house. While we were there, I was following my sister around, attempting to annoy the everliving crap out of her by providing commentary on all of the books centering around what our 12th grade English teacher would think of each book. And who did we run into ( Read more... )