healing

The baby has the sniffles and I'm the culprit. This is the 2nd time I have gotten a cold in 6 weeks. I think I'm just over worked and over exposed to sick people. Last time some little kids innoculated me, but this time, I'm fairly sure a geriatric patient gave it to me.

I'm currently sipping on arroz caldo just delivered by my mom. She put extra ginger in it too. This is just another perk of living near my parents.

geri

Two more days and I'm off this rotation. I cover 2 hospitals in this rotation. At first the one private hospital I was working at was the busy one (12 patients) at one time all just for me. By the 10th day, it dwindled to 2 for an average of 4. But suddenly, the other hospital (sub-acute) starting picking up. I have 7 there which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so complicated.

The sub-acute hospital is basically for rehab and wound care. But these patients have turned out to have so many more problems. One had an MI on top of having bacteremia of (of course) methicillin resistant staph aureus , and 2 have purported aspiration pneumonia status post CVA (strokes).

I get calls at all time of the night . . .every day even when I'm "supposedly" off. Can't wait to graduate. One more hard rotation and I'm outta here.

counting the days

I already got my offer letter. Yeah! The funny thing, for most docs, life is not better after residency except for the salary. Most people still have bad hours especially since they are not protected under the residency 80 hour AVERAGe work week. Our Ob-gyn faculty for family medicine are on call 3 days in a row for deliveries and are extremely tired. They work holidays, weekends, etc.

Not me. I'm working a job that gives me the weekends off and holidays off. I won't be making as much as some other docs, but anything in the 6 figures is good enough for me.



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