well not really, his family was withdrawing his care and he died the night i was on call, but my name is on his death certificate. i'm on SICU right now and the SICU is combined with the CTICU so we round with both the ICU attending (an anesthesiologist) and we round on the CT patients with the CT surgeons. I have one of the CT patients and every day that we round i get torn to shreds by the cardiothoracic guys. on the other patients whenever the attending wants to pimp us interns on something he says who should i ask and then always asks me the question. i think he does this because he thinks it's hilarious what the CT guys do and wants to carry it on during his rounds. needless to say i look forward every morning to rounds. the night i was on call i didn't call the attending once and only called the senior resident once to let him know the guy died and the next morning during rounds both the attending and the senior resident are both talking about how horrible call is because you don't get any sleep. i don't know what they were doing all night but it wasn't taking care of the icu patients. i'll have to wait till the end of the week before i know for sure but i'm on my way to 90+ hours this week. only 11 months 3 weeks and 3 days till intern year is over.
-jason
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Jason,
Stay strong. But I know what you mean. I am on Pulmonary service right now and as we round allllllll dayyyyyy longgggggg. So it is like 4:00 pm and we have been rounding since morning well our whole team gets into the elevator and some other attending gets in and asks, " where do you guys want to go" and at that moment my mouth repeated what my head was thinking, I said is "home on the panel". The other intern with me muffled his snickering and I was beat red. Stay strong is all I can say. But being a DO you know everyone is really jealous so I have nothing to worry about right????
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