Sunday, September 30, 2012

 When I try and look cool in front of the medical students...


The moment I realize I've left my ipad on the unit...


What the ortho team looks like in our black coats...













What the ortho team THINKS we look like in our black coats...


When the ED ends the consult with 'and I've called medicine to admit the patient'...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

When I walk in on my attending discussing a late night consult with the senior...


When I told my senior that I was going to board a humerus fracture...


When I'm presenting a radial head fracture in the morning, and realize I don't have wrist films...


Sign out when I'm not prepared...

Getting home after a overnight call shift...



When I finish my indications presentation...




When I explain my reduction technique to my senior...



Saturday, September 22, 2012

When my senior cuts off my presentation right before I announce the diagnosis...

When my attending lists like 7 things to do for a patient....


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

When indications is cancelled...

What meals are like working at a vegetarian institution...


When I try and prove my senior wrong...


When I try and prove my attending wrong...


When my patient asks if I want to see pictures of his prolapsed rectum...


Monday, September 17, 2012

When I tell the intern to go ahead and reduce the fracture...


Farting in the ortho library at 5:58 AM, and then watching the team file in for 6 AM signout...





Not having done spine, when someone presents a spine case for indications...

What goes through my head when we're nailing a femur, and my attending says 'make sure to put it in the canal'...


Sunday, September 16, 2012

When I underestimate the force needed for a reduction...



When I try to understand hand topics...


When I want to run the list, but my attending doesn't...


When I'm asked a question during indications that I don't know the answer to...



When an attending asks me the course of the radial nerve...


Saturday, September 15, 2012

When I fart walking out of the ED...


When the rotating ED intern is a lot shorter than me...


How my head feels after studying hand mechanics...



When the intern incorrectly transfers the patient to the med center...


When my senior and attending watch me reduce something...

When the patient says they don't want a resident in the case...

Friday, September 14, 2012

Walking into the ED after I just got 4 consults in a row...

When I try and reduce radial head fractures...

30 hour shift condensed into 10 seconds....

When I ask my patient about their personal life...

When I tell my attending that I'm trying to manage my patients medical problems...


When I'm reading for the day's cases during grand rounds, and an attending asks me something about the grand rounds topic...




Thursday, September 13, 2012

Me and the resident next to me when rheumatology gives their morning conference, and they use the phrase 'morning stiffness'...


When I try to do the same reduction maneuver an attending showed me...



When I do an awesome job during the night, and my attending and senior don't say anything about it...



After doing a consult, when I check if there's anything I can help the ED out with...


When I get scolded by a non-ortho attending...


As a married guy, whenever a cute nurse waves at me...


Wednesday, September 12, 2012

When my wife wants go out the night after my 30 hour call shift...


When its 30 minutes until shift change, and I hear ACS is trying to consult me...

When I think about doing a complex indication talk, and instead present an achilles laceration...