Those nuggets of positive feedback keep me going

New low point:
When a patient tells you they're worried about you because you've been working too much

"Just do this one simple task then go home"

Half an hour and 3 phone calls later...

Thank you to attendings who teach great bedside manner by trying to get to know the patient on a personal level.

But perhaps there's a better time to do it then 9am on a post call day?

My apologies for failing to meet expectations that were never outlined and vary staff to staff

How does one learn to operate without being given the opportunity to operate?

Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette meme with a caption: "I have an interesting consult for you"

It's been a while. Not much has changed though. Days are long, months are short

"I am old Gandalf... I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread."

2 months of busy call-heavy service and in the meantime the world gets that much shittier and autocratic?

I'll just crawl back into a call room

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"Witness"

*Palpates abdomen*

"Too many words that lead nowhere. Explain."

Karsa Orlong would make a good surgeon

Pay for parking then get a ticket anyway because you work so long the initial parking expired. Thanks hospital

You know things are "manageable" when during a social random residents and staff comment how there are too many patients admitted on your service

Actually ended up being 7 days later

a cartoon of rick and morty sitting in a cockpit ALT: a cartoon of rick and morty sitting in a cockpit

"Hello and welcome to my live posting of a call shift"

28 hours later...

Paging the wrong number, the resident doesn't respond and that automatically makes... The resident lazy? Rich coming from people who have actual work hour restrictions and scheduled breaks

I'm on Bonehunters now and it's been a while since I've read Deadhouse Gates... Still get the feels at a mere mention of Coltaine and the chain

Hood's balls I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see this masterpiece mentioned

Wait what did I miss? Scrubs reboot is happening? The show is low key one of the reasons I'm in medicine. Excited!

First in, last out. Don't think anyone would be surprised by feeling kinship with the Bridgeburners #malazan

Ever notice how the real doctors never use words like "toxin" or "poison"? Curious...

The team and culture really make or break the training experience! Hope it has plenty experiences for that mysterious surgical past

Cautiously interested in trauma/ICU, but I'd also like to have a life so that may change. At the same time, general surgery is not known to be a lifestyle residency in the first place haha

The hospital I work at has advanced endoscopy and they do some really cool stuff!

So stenting woman is not stenting hearts then, hey?

There's something about physician writers that can capture unique parts of human experience. Or perhaps it just resonates with doctors more as they speak our language

I'm from a similar part of the world then, except I skipped Bulgakov when I was 13 because I didn't know what was good for me

Ok, I'm convinced. I ended up going with Bulgakov's Young Doctor's Notebook, so the gifted child will be next