Monday, November 12, 2012

How we at the hospital feel about safety...


Successfully blocking a consult...


How abscesses are handled in the ED...


The first thing I say to my wife after two straight weeks of not being home before 9PM...



Driving to east campus following a call shift...

When the ED says at 2AM that there's a bad open fracture, and they're going to page my attending...



During each indications talk...



When the attending I'm with today operated all night last night...


Saturday, November 10, 2012

How I must look to a patient when preparing to do a reduction...


















How I think I look when preparing to do a reduction...

















How I must look to a patient when preparing to do a spine exam...

















Every year we have to take something called the OITE.  It's basically a bunch of stuff that you don't have to know throughout the year, but they need to be able to regurgitate on a test.  The experience is something like this.

You study so much your brain feels like:












You then realize the night before that you're basically screwed:












You start the test and within 5 questions:











But of course you can't run, so the test does this to you:














And around question 175:











After it's done, you discuss answers with your colleagues, to which most of them do this to your reasoning:















And then you go home and check your notes:












And you await the inevitable call into the program directors office:







Sigh.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Studying at home with 3 kids...


How my seniors usually responds to my indications talk...


When a I'm double scrubbing with a senior...


When a guy had grade 3 open tib/fib, and I missed a hairline patella fracture...



I didn't believe the ED when they said that there was an arterial lac, so I let down the arm tourniquet.  It went something like this...



When I watch sports on sunday and realize most of the professional athletes and commentators are younger than me...


The proposition of passing the OITE when my program director gives a 'high yield' review right before the test...

This sums up hand conference for me.


Whenever a patient waves at me out in public...

When the patient says that she's allergic to generic vicodin, but brand name vicodin is fine...