It’s amazing how many insights you can have in a short 30 minute bike ride. But I’ve forgotten most of them already. One of them had to do with noticing new muscles on my body, and feeling them work on the bike. In what I thought was my slowest bike ride of all, actually ended [...]
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The lady with blue earlobes was not so much a difficult medical case as it was an opportunity for me to step up onto my “senior resident” ladder and pretend like I was smart. It was one of my very busy overnight shifts and while I was in with another patient, medics rolled in a [...]
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Just plain old life things. Going from nights to days is a hard transition, but nights to afternoons is even harder. I’ve been up till 5AM every night, still on my night schedule, then I sleep about 8 hours, wake up exhausted and go to work. Ugh. TOday we had 7AM lectures, so I got [...]
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BLogger just ate a long funny post in which I individually thanked and commented on all the folks who left their remarks in my plea for attention! Grrr. I think I’ll just have a beer and come back to talk to you guys tomorrow. Oh, um, a story? OK. Umm. OK, here’s a funny one…no, [...]
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Wow, thanks for the overwhelming show of support from all of you guys! I was going to list each and every one of you to say thanks, but gosh, there’s too many. In response to some of the comments: Rich: yes, 2 hour waits are rather long. We’ve had longer, but it makes us all [...]
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I rushed into the resucitation room after seeing our flight crew run down the hallway with a gurney. The trauma team was gowned and ready, and I didn’t even know there was a flight coming in. THat’s how busy we were last night. I quickly dressed in a trauma gown, hat and sterile gloves as [...]
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Is anyone reading? Do you still like my blog? Hate it? Where are my throngs of adoring fans and commenters? Take credit for the time you spend reading my pages and leave me a comment! Please!
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I used to be able to use some cognitive behavioral therapy to tune into why I would get so grumpy at work. Identifying the offending incident and depersonalizing it kept me fresh for the next hurdle to approach. I guess that the hurdles don’t get any fewer or lower as I progress in my career. [...]
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After 2 days off with 7 AM meetings on both days, I’m back to a string of nights, starting tonight. Two cool patients to tell you about when I get a chance, from last week’s night shifts, an overdose and an unstable tachycardia with CHF and blue earlobes. Remind me about them if I forget. [...]
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