This is hard to write about. It's one of those times I'm going to have to fight the urge to say I did excellent today, that I came prepared, and I was the best doc in the room.
The truth is I didn't do excellent today, I wasn't prepared, and I for sure wasn't the best doc in the room. Today was PALS testing (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) where they teach/test us to save children who are "crashing". Yesterday was perfect when I was practicing it in the first class but today it's testing and I find it's one of those days where all the coffee in the world won't put you back together again. They have these "decision-trees" for how patients present to you ect. Yesterday I flew through them and today I'm crawling. Not to mention the knowledge portion which I'm usually good (no matter what) - I open the test book and I can't keep a read sentence in my head, which makes deciding clinical treatment kinda hard. All in all, just in case you were holding your breath...I passed, but barely. I'd be more worried about my professional future except that I used to do these when I was a fourth year in medical school (before I had 4 weeks of sitting on my butt not thinking about medicine) give me some rest, which at this point sadly is much needed, and some studying/practicing and I'll be back to snuff - its just a constant assault on your pride when everyone else seems to be a walking, talking baby-doc...and you find yourself crawling. :S
Newbie-Doc
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Helloooooo!
WHY: I'm starting this thing for a billion reasons, namely catharsis, fun, and the ability to look back on my daily experiences in my little hospital years from now.
WHERE: I'm keeping the specifics out of it to be safe from HIPAA (did I spell that right - doesn't matter)
HOW: I'll write SOMETHING daily about my experiences in becoming a doctor at my new residency/internship. NOTE: The names, events, ect will be altered slightly to achieve anonymity of my coworkers, patients, and myself, however, I hope to keep my experience intact and realistic.
WHO: I'm a new pediatrics intern at a very large free standing children's hospital (IE. a hospital only for kids). My wife is a brand spanking new physician as well, doing her internship at a hospital about 10 miles away from me in family practice. We are pretty alone out here in a city bigger than we've ever lived in, farther away from family than we've ever been.
It's scary and exciting (at least for us) and there will be many more posts before this blog closes so if you're interested, stay tuned.
Newbie-Doc
PS - Sorry for the poor spelling/grammar I could do better, but it would hamper how fast I get these out. Wish I was an English major as well, but if you put yourself through reading this for now at least you'll have to do with my spell check :)
WHERE: I'm keeping the specifics out of it to be safe from HIPAA (did I spell that right - doesn't matter)
HOW: I'll write SOMETHING daily about my experiences in becoming a doctor at my new residency/internship. NOTE: The names, events, ect will be altered slightly to achieve anonymity of my coworkers, patients, and myself, however, I hope to keep my experience intact and realistic.
WHO: I'm a new pediatrics intern at a very large free standing children's hospital (IE. a hospital only for kids). My wife is a brand spanking new physician as well, doing her internship at a hospital about 10 miles away from me in family practice. We are pretty alone out here in a city bigger than we've ever lived in, farther away from family than we've ever been.
It's scary and exciting (at least for us) and there will be many more posts before this blog closes so if you're interested, stay tuned.
Newbie-Doc
PS - Sorry for the poor spelling/grammar I could do better, but it would hamper how fast I get these out. Wish I was an English major as well, but if you put yourself through reading this for now at least you'll have to do with my spell check :)
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