Blogs Tagged With second-year options | rated: b

  • Twenty Four Hour People

    *Hello* *hello* *hello* *hello* Anyone still out there? If you are consider me impressed. I am clearly going through a "meh" writing phase, mostly because I am out doing things. But every now and again it's nice to come back to see how everyone is doing and write myself these little reminders of wha…

  • Woah, Black Betty.

    I walk into the patients room, a young to middle aged black female with a pleasant smile on her faceDr J:"How are you feeling today Mrs X?"X: "Oh I'm just fine but betty isn't doing too well"I think to myself what? who is betty? that's not her name. is this a psych patient?Dr J: "What's wrong with B…

  • A Return to something less Intense

    I have been MIA for quite a while. Chalk that up to finishing almost 3 months straight of ICU care, with the last two weeks being night float. As a second year resident, every one of my non-ward service calls is as the overnight doc in charge for the ICU. 36 patients, every one of them in critical/i…

  • How to make someone DNR

    On several occasions I have written about making a patient DNR (do not resuscitate); about the difficulty, the responsibility, the power of convincing someone to just let their loved one go, to not force them past their allotted time on earth. I have written about how I have helped others deal with…