The 2nd year in sign out presented a tibia fracture of a "36 year old G3P2A1 female"...

On the phone with the intern
Me: "Okay, just get them consented and call me anytime with questions."
Intern: "Sounds great, thanks. Talk to you soon, love you, bye.".

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Then:

Just getting the OITE results after feeling pretty good about it...

Trying to critically evaluate a pediatric elbow xray at morning sign out...

I don't think a more perfect analogy exists showing what its like being a trauma service senior with the juniors...

When an attending wanted to present M&M's so we could address...resident...issues...

Me helping my attending do a forequarter ampuation...

What the world does when I'm not on call...

What the world does when I'm on call...

 When a patient wakes up super quick after surgery...

When a junior corrects me in front of an attending...

One of the medical assistants in clinic: "So, are you a first or a second year?" (I'm a fifth year)

I decided to dive into a kocher approach for an acetabulum without my attending scrubbed in. It went.....

I'm on my foot rotation. Which is interesting considering this is my thoughts of most people's feet...

Trying to hold a splint mold on a kid that's waking up from sedation...

What I'm sure my attending was seeing when he let me fly solo on my first total knee...

Got asked by a patient at their pre-op appointment if they'd still be able to 'pleasure' themselves after their wrist surgery...

When you stick a needle into a knee, withdraw the plunger of the syringe, and instantly your syringe fills with pus...

Trying to get any studying done while my kids are awake...

Imagine the orange gourde is a digital nerve. This is basically how I operate under a microscope...

I had a ... 'rural'.... gentleman who wouldn't elaborate on the backstory. I think this fits...

ED doc: "Hey, we've got a guy down here with bilateral femurs and a midshaft humerus fra..."

Medicine resident: "Hey, you know that 90 year old guy, I saw you admitted him back to us, he's probably ready to be admitted to the ortho service."
Me:

When I'm doing disability exams and a patient with normal xrays starts moaning in pain during the exam...

If you've ever wondered what sign out looks like with an attending in a bad mood, well...

When one of our new PA's presents a patient with a 'fracture and a lac over it, but it's not open'....

This is promptly followed by a 'but i looked all around, and i couldnt see bone anywhere'...

Some patient walked into clinic with a game of thrones shirt on (specifically one that had the knights watch creed on it) : 
Me: 'So one of my friends has a theory that jon snow is going to be a dragon rider because he has targaryan blood, so he can, BUT, bran is going to somehow control them through his wog powers and all that stuff."
Patient: 

Patient after a minor surgery: "Hey doc, these norco's probably won't do the trick, how about some percocet 10's?"
Me: "No, the norco's should be okay, if you're having a ton of pain, you should probably come to the ER."
Patient: "Well, okay. How about some oral dilaudid instead?"
Me:

Facebook page!

I have a facebook page!

https://www.facebook.com/orthopedicresidency

You should like it. I don't really know why, but you definitely should. Updates maybe? That's gotta be it. Do it for the updates.

Walking into the ED during a motocross race weekend...

Me: "Hey man, so you've tested positive for meth a couple of times already. If this one comes back positive, we're going to have to put off your surgery for a while. Have you used recently?"
Patient:

When when of my co-residents asks how the day went after a patient lost 4 liters of blood...

After struggling for a half hour to get a clavicle malunion back out to length...

We have new PA's that we work with that take overnight call. This is currently how I spend most of my mornings during their sign out...

Patient: "My heel pain started like 10 years ago when I was in a motorcycle accident. The bone was fractured, but luckily it wasn't broken."
Me:

I had my pandora station in the OR yesterday on random and taylor swift's "style" came on...

OR tech: "So why's it thumbs upped?"
Me:

(To the scrub tech at the end of a supracondylar pinning, motioning to the end of the k-wire as I went to cut it off)
Me: 'You might want to grab the tip right there, it's about to shoot at you.'

I saw one of my patients that I operated on driving home today...

Arriving at a patient's room:
RN: "Doctor, I'm so glad you're here, patient X went into SVT, his heart rate is currently 215..."
Me:

Interviewer: "So what do you like to do outside of work for fun?"
Me:

Interviewer: "You know, your hobbies and stuff like that?"
Me: "Oh, well, I've got three kids, so between work and them..."