Another start to another rotation – this time I’m back at the county hospital for five of the next six months kicking this month off with ENT Clinic. Today was an extremely abbreviated day (only 10 patients… not going to happen again), but typically, clinic is overbooked with 50+ patients…
Two days left on my first month of inpatient medicine wards! Of the eight medicine teams, I’m on the one “day admitting” (aka, up to 8 new patients) on the very last day of this rotation… Halloween, nonetheless. What luck! :-( Here’s hoping I don’t look ridiculously exhausted during orientation…
Inpatient medicine wards are considered much more difficult compared to our other intern year rotations, yet the privilege of getting to manage a patient’s full set of medical problems is a valuable learning opportunity. I’ve been extremely lucky to have an attending, fresh out of residency, who the entire team…
Tomorrow is our team’s second major admission day; we’ll receive eight patients plus a possible ICU transfer. While having new patients on the service is great, these tend to be our longest days… and the Texans are playing their second playoff game tomorrow. Last week’s admission day was Saturday… when…
I almost forgot how rigorous hospital medicine can be, but being back on the wards has been a much-needed reminder why I went into this profession. It’s also fun watching the MS2s (who just started clinical rotations a week ago!) present patients on rounds; it feels like yesterday when I…
What a return to the clinical scene! Although my upper-level resident is switching, I’ve gotten to know the two MS2s and two interns I’ll be working with for the next four weeks. I couldn’t be happier with this group!
All fourth year medical students are required to complete a one month sub-internship (sub-I) in internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, or family medicine. Compared to core rotation students who focus more on interviewing patients, doing physical exams, and synthesizing assessments/plans, sub-I students perform the aforementioned in addition to other aspects of…
Now that I’ve completed my surgical ICU experience, I have a renewed sense of how pivotal teamwork is in the clinical setting. Coordination between pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurses, and physicians was absolutely paramount in creating an ideal plan for each patient. It was also interesting to note the other parts…
I’m staring at a crazy patient census to start my second-half of this SICU rotation. :shock: Now that I’ve become acclimated to how things operate from a logistics standpoint (discharge criteria, admissions, trauma, etc.), I’m better able to gauge just how much longer patients will remain under intensive care. I’ve…
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how Sauron’s Ring of Power met its demise… not to mention any ring that needs to be removed in the SICU. :-)