ok… so time flew by so fast that i didn’t even post an article when I was in Orthopedics! Gosh… well, basically it was great because unlike the whole OB experience where you feel like you are working working working, in Ortho, your resident is your big brother and friend. I had to present twice in front of them, and it was like a casual conversation… piece of cake! I DID have some trouble with the ER, just because I didn’t have a resident with me the whole time, and so I was kind of the one managing the whole ORtho area with some help from the clerk on duty come the afternoon.
And so Day 2 of Rehab has arrived. I never thought the day would come, when I would rather screen a hundred patients in the blood bank rather than see 2 rehab patients… SERIOUSLY. The 2 days have been excruciating! First of all I feel like I am a crow at gunpoint. I’ve been hearing people say you have to sign in on time, no problem with that. Then sign in at the OPD, then sign in at lunch time at the rehab office, sign in at 1 pm at opd, sign out at 4:30 pm… Basically they are tracking our every move. What am I, 3? Then even if we are done with OPD, we can’t leave earlier because we have to sign out at 4:30 not a minute earlier. The point being…? Even so, it was never an issue for me, because I don’t leave early coz I have to make these utterly long histories with too much detail… *sigh* Then I got this message from my friend that they now want the histories to be computerized… OK… fine… On duty, you have to sign in on 7:30 am, spend the whole time at the ward even if there are no toxic patients there, then at 4:30 pm till morning, at the call room, answering calls… answering calls? for what? Good thing I am ok with quiet time, so I guess it won’t be that much of a crazy time for me… come post duty, you can’t go home yet… you have to stay in the ward… make your progress notes… then? just make sure you stay there or ELSE… they will demerit you… OUT OF POST! This is supposed to be a minor rotation, but that doesn’t mean it is a piece of cake. It makes me all the more paranoid because of all the rules. Not that I am out to make any trouble. I am just getting too anxious because I might break a rule even though I don’t mean any harm. So, basically I think I will get by, I just want to say, that for the record, that the rules are absurd.
27 days to go and it’s goodbye PGH!
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