It's been one of those days that seem like the "perfect storm" of events. When all the right things happen for your life to totally suck for 30 hours. As it would happen I'm running on about 5 hours sleep over the accumulative 48 hours and this just happened to be one of the busiest days I've had in a while...but just because you are tired doesn't mean you can skip out on all your responsibilities to your patient, your school, your clinic, your patients, your attendings, your friends, and most importantly your significant other. It's really important to be able to judge how tired you are and know when to "limit" yourself...this can take the form of shelving chores that can wait, having friends help carry you through something you don't have the strenght to do by yourself, asking your wife for her understanding and pacience as you make your 80th mistake of the day, or even something as small as deciding to make a small quick blog post. Where ever you are at in life remember you are not a machine, don't treat yourself like one, and know your limits (this isn't something I've mastered, quite the opposite in fact, but I'm trying).
Luckily for me I have a post ready for you guys. It's not something residency related, but it's a true story that happened during medical school that I always said I would put to paper...or blog if I ever started writing. I give you "Giving The Finger".
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