Vagabond

Oh general medicine... You are going to be a long six weeks. To make things worse, they gave us students pagers. Pretty sure I won't get a single page. But as I looked over at the registrar carrying four pagers around her neck that would go off every few minutes and once again pause the never ending ward round. It dawned on me: this way grumpiness lies.

I feel like this song quietens my soul.

Golden oldies

Well, 1/8th of the year over. Now on to the next hospital, for the next rotation. I enjoyed my time in emergency, and I'll definitely put it on the "I'd like to do that again as a doctor" list. I'd like to see if I still enjoy it once I can't leave and go to the beach if I'm bored.

I did have a good time. I enjoyed the work, though I can see how it's not for everyone and how it may even not be for me in the long run.

I did jinx myself after my last blog post. After feeling really good about the leveling up in my skills, I then had three acutely sick patients I couldn't cannulate when they were the one who probably needed it the most. I had to run off and find a young fit person with "chest pain" to make sure I didn't go home empty handed after missing the others.

I do note though, there is an interesting relationship in the ED. It seems like the longer you've been around the better you are. So if a junior can't get something done they'll ask the senior, or the consultant will do it. Seems contrary to some other areas of medicine, where the consultants have lost all motor skills and live entirely within their heads, existing solely to bellow orders and pimp students.

On another note, I had a yellow fever vaccination on Thursday. Today I feel wretched. I'm not sure if they are related, but part of me feels doomed to be the 1/250000 who develops yellow fever from the vaccination. The larger part of me thinks that other part is an eejit though.