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Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
thesmartazz said:Senior year is a great time to practice staying up . Go out and then try to stay up doing your homework - all in the name of preparing for the future, of course. No pretenses *cough*.
dustinlevengood said:So your saying you can barely make it threw a normal workday without a lunch..I work 10 hours a day right now thats already 2 more then you can stay up..you may wanna look into a different field..like...bein a bum..my roommate is usually only awake about 8 hours a day
lsumedgirl said:Well, while the show ER isn't fully realistic, you will have 36 hour shifts when you do certain rotations. For things like ER rotations, no 36 hours there. But for surgery... better hook up the caffeine IV... and pray for shift where few people have to get cut!!!
Good luck!
ADeadLois said:Jack Bauer can only work 24 hours shifts! You're telling me I have to go 50% longer than JACK FRIGGIN' BAUER!!???!!??
Slide said:Looks like someone hasn't been doing their homework.
dustinlevengood said:So your saying you can barely make it threw a normal workday without a lunch..I work 10 hours a day right now thats already 2 more then you can stay up..you may wanna look into a different field..like...bein a bum..my roommate is usually only awake about 8 hours a day
Well hon it all depends which specialty you pursue. Rads and psych are pretty cushy....xholliesterx said:Okay, technically I can stay up for a lot longer on most days, just saying... I dont like to and I get sleepy!
the reference was to the 'homework' you should be doing with regards to choosing a career wisely.... to answer your question, I was talking to one of the residents (at a USF affiliated hospital, so this is relative to you)...asked her when her shift had started, she replied '5am yesterday'...and this was at 7pm. You will learn to love coffee, trust mexholliesterx said:oh, Ive been doing my homework, I just make sure I do it all before 12 am! im good like that!
mac_kin said:are 36 hour shifts also the reason why doctors kill so many patients?
sorry, i've always found this a lil pathetic. Doctors think they're so tough and mighty. They're doing the most important job in the world and giving them this many consecutive hours is BS!
Pose said:I wish you would stop making threads. We call this quiet time. READ a few of the other 03248-23482384234-92375423- topics.
xholliesterx said:I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
The longer shifts are mostly during residency, and serve purpose to expose the resident to as many different cases as possible in the years that they are training......but, I also believe that the hours are as such because of an "I had to do it, so you should to" type of attitude...or making sure only the most dedicated choose the field...once a system is in place, it is hard to break.
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
I don't know if you are referring to me, but I'm a sophomore in college?Med_Leviathan said:Why are there so many highschoolers on this board now?
IHaveLab said:Pose, I'm assuming you're referring to the recent proliferation of xholliesterx threads? If so, *ditto* from me!
njbmd said:They are a fact of life during residency. If not, better change professions before you get much more in debt.
njbmd
xholliesterx said:Jeez, a person can't ask some questions? You people are dinguses who think you know it all.
IHaveLab said:Pose, I'm assuming you're referring to the recent proliferation of xholliesterx threads? If so, *ditto* from me!
xholliesterx said:I guess Im one of the few that won't be in debt. Daddy's takin' care of me.
xholliesterx said:I don't know if you are referring to me, but I'm a sophomore in college?
BaylorGuy said:Yeah but for some reason Jack Bauer tends to complete 24 hours awake in about 5 months.
Hows that Jack Bauer for ya??
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
Trismegistus4 said:Here's something I still don't really understand: why is it necessary for residents to work (WORK, as opposed to merely be at the hospital) for 36 hours straight, or 30 for that matter? What exactly is going on at 2AM that you can't sleep? Are there emergencies all night long, one after the other? If the common lore were that residents merely had to be at the hospital for 36 hours, I wouldn't find that unusual at all, but what everyone seems to say is that you literally have to work, non stop, from about 7AM one day till 6PM the next, with maybe at most a quick cat nap or 2 overnight. What exactly happens overnight that prevents residents from sleeping most of the night except for a couple of brief pages?
daisy958 said:The longer shifts are mostly during residency, and serve purpose to expose the resident to as many different cases as possible in the years that they are training......but, I also believe that the hours are as such because of an "I had to do it, so you should to" type of attitude...or making sure only the most dedicated choose the field...once a system is in place, it is hard to break.
Sponge said:And my personal favorite:
the metered dose inhaler
xholliesterx said:I guess Im one of the few that won't be in debt. Daddy's takin' care of me.
n3ur05ur930n said:Well hon it all depends which specialty you pursue. Rads and psych are pretty cushy....
Trismegistus4 said:Here's something I still don't really understand: why is it necessary for residents to work (WORK, as opposed to merely be at the hospital) for 36 hours straight, or 30 for that matter? What exactly is going on at 2AM that you can't sleep? Are there emergencies all night long, one after the other? If the common lore were that residents merely had to be at the hospital for 36 hours, I wouldn't find that unusual at all, but what everyone seems to say is that you literally have to work, non stop, from about 7AM one day till 6PM the next, with maybe at most a quick cat nap or 2 overnight. What exactly happens overnight that prevents residents from sleeping most of the night except for a couple of brief pages?
xholliesterx said:Do they seriously make residents and doctors work for 36 hours like on ER? I can barely stay away for 8 hours and I hate coffee. I am in trouble!
MirrorTodd said:Is anyone here caffeine tolerant? In order for caffeine to affect me, I have to drink copious amounts of that stuff and when I say copious I mean like a dozen cups of coffee. Red bulls do nothing for me either. The only thing that has worked for me were these pills called stacker 2. If I took them on an empty stomach, then I was bouncing of the walls and my mood was on cloud 9. However, you'd probably die if you took them everyday just to stay awake, they're supposed to be fat burning.
MirrorTodd said:Is anyone here caffeine tolerant? In order for caffeine to affect me, I have to drink copious amounts of that stuff and when I say copious I mean like a dozen cups of coffee. Red bulls do nothing for me either. The only thing that has worked for me were these pills called stacker 2. If I took them on an empty stomach, then I was bouncing of the walls and my mood was on cloud 9. However, you'd probably die if you took them everyday just to stay awake, they're supposed to be fat burning.
Wackie said:Kinda.
It gives me just enough to keep from falling asleep. I'm still tired and groggy, but when it's time to sleep, I can't. Then the next day I'm even more sleep deprived. It's a viscious cycle so I stay away from caffeine and rarely ever have it.
I would imagine the energy drinks would have more caffeine than other drinks, but I can sleep at night.