OH.... MY....GAWD!!!!! You people are a riot. I would gladdly trade 1 5-hour subtotal colectomy (and yes, scrubbed in on more than one as a student so I know the pain) for Q4 call in peds where on any call night we can admit 5 pooper/pukers, 3 URIs with meningitic signs (usually end up with adenovirus), 2 or 3 rule out sepsis neonates (which requires an LP every time), at least 2 asthmatics requiring Q2 treatments, a party goer who had too much and is just plain beligerant, a heart surg pt transfer, and one of the 3 well known CP/MR kids who come in frequently and stay for weeks at a time with their high maintenance moms.
And, since I'm on a roll and med-peds to boot... I'm at the VA spa this month so I see old farts who won't quit smoking and can't breathe any more, amputee's who have pressure ulcers they let get really bad (and I mean BAD!!!), lung cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, c. diff colitis, heart cripples, mentally ill, diabetic nephropathy now needing dialysis 'cause they didn't want to control their sugar levels or give up the candy and donuts, etc.
I guess call sucks no matter where you are or what you are doing. Well, have a good call night for those of you on call tonight. I'll be thinking of you (yeah, right 😉 ).
