When my attending said I should do my hair to look good because 'you only have one chance to make a first impression'...

When the intern asked if the displaced subtroch even needed surgery...

Me: 'So we're going to have to keep you overnight for antibiotics.'

(16 y/o) pt: 'I wanna go home.'

Me: 'You realize you had an open fracture, right? That needs IV antibiotics for a couple days.'

Pt: 'Whatever...(under breath) gay.'

We had a radiology attending give us a lecture that included the physics of the different MRI imaging sequences...

When I document that a patient's extremity was 'wnl', and the xrays the next morning show a fracture there...

We have a sick patient in the medical ICU.  I asked their resident if we could take him to surgery tomorrow, and they started telling me that 'his ammonia was 124, his base deficit was 22, his pro-BNP was trending up, his upper GI series showed...'

When an attending takes the knife away...

At the start of a knee scope, my attending gave me the scope and said to take a tour of the knee.  This is what I felt like...

One of the private ortho attendings patients (we don't take care of their patients) was starting to crash. Someone pointed out that I was ortho, and I got approached by 3 nurses at once asking for orders...

6 hour surgery started at 0742, coffee before it began at 0631, this happens immediately after we close...

I try and do a humorous slide as the first slide during indications.  This is how most of them go...

I'm not sure why the guy in the background does a 'i'm a little teapot' move...

What it feels like when your senior told you what to do the night before, and while getting reamed for it the next morning, they sit there....silent....

Getting a consult for a hand injury at 0715...after it switched to plastics hand call at 0700...

I rotated through the trauma service first.  This was my rotation.

When I found out the sports rotation comes with 'administrative time' on thursday mornings...

Rounding at 0751, and your first case started at 0735...

Some patients are more resistant than others to the spine exam....

What I automatically assume when the ED consults us for a forearm laceration and they say theres no deep structures involved...

Describing my reduction technique at signout when the intern reduced the fracture before I got there...

When my wife tries to cheer me up after the OITE scores came out and says: 'Come on, you didn't do bad.  Who got a higher score than you?'...

2 of my attendings were arguing, and I interjected with a comment.  The reaction from my seniors...

When neurosurgery consulted us for 'left upper and lower extremity weakness'...

What I feel like each time before we push ketamine...

Before examining any female under the age of 40...

My external reaction while hearing my negatives during rotation reviews...

My internal reaction while hearing my negatives during rotation reviews...

Going to the PICU and talking to the nurses about pediatric pain control...

This was almost verbatim advice from an attending before starting residency...

When I'm talking with an inpatient, and their roomate starts throwing up...

When we're talking about putting in a screw for locking in a femoral nail during morning sign out and our attending says: 'You've already used that hole.  You've got to take it out and put it in the other hole.'...

This weekend I was reducing an ankle in the ED and bilateral femur fractures rolled into the bed next to us...

My 30 hour weekend shift's diet...

When we're getting a medicine consult for severe anemia, and they ask what the patient's haptoglobin is...

When I heard Dr. Jaysson Brooks was visiting, how I pictured it going in my mind...

I was on spine service and worked until 11PM each night he was here.  We didn't hang out...

I disagreed with an attending during indications.  As soon as it was said...

When I see the acute care surgery team and I know they're trying to transfer a patient to me...

My attending anytime I present my plan to an attending for a pelvic or acetabular fracture...

As soon as I got back to the ortho library following an extremely bloody open tibia reduction and splint...

I made up a new way to do a coaptation splint. During sign out...

I had to use my wife's shaving cream and deodorant  after running out of my own.  I felt like this giving indications later that day...

When one of my patients has a cast complication and the attending asks who put the cast on...

My reaction when one of my seniors said that 'I have to be careful about what i say when i'm criticizing you, it might end up on your blog'...

When returning a nurse page and she says over the phone: 'I know you guys don't have to come to the floor to write orders, but you need to keep me updated if the patient's surgery is cancelled.  All you wrote is a diet order...'

When people start asking questions at the end of my indications talk...

Taking a patient history after being awake for the past 25 hours...

The bowel habits of a surgical resident...

When my attending rebuked my plan for an EUA, and I find that it's the exact plan mentioned in one of the main ortho textbooks...

How the above mentioned 'I told you so' conversation with the attending went...

When I realize the intern's right and I'm wrong...