Sunday, May 23, 2010

resident

oh my goodness, this being a resident malarkey is far harder than i thought it would be!!!
the amount of stress and responsibility you have is far, far more than an intern does. plus you are expected to do so many more things like RUN CLINICS.

let me explain about RUNNING CLINICS. it is like the game L4D2 (in other words, left for dead 2. and yes, i was given this term by my computer games playing guy friends haha. i claim no knowledge of it whatsoever!).
you sprint to clinics after your morning rounds (which are usually draggy because the attending comes late, so irritating), and to your shock and horror, there's already 7 patients lined up and waiting. ARGHHHH.
and because this is OG, you need to sit down and explain everything clearly and carefully to all the patients (not that other specialties don't do such a thing, but the malpractice costs are much higher in OG!). and then you need to be empathetic and sincere to everyone, and your patients can take their own sweet time to undress and get on the examining couch so you can PAP them, following which they need to get dressed S-L-O-W-L-Y and you need to explain your examination findings.
a fast patient is one that takes under 10 minutes, but most will go over the time limit. and you need to end morning clinics, eat lunch, review ward patients, trace results from morning clinics, and then sprint to afternoon clnics again. whew. what a marathon!!!!!

(by the way, the above was written partly in sacarsm). as you can see, i detest clinics!

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