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6 more days to the end of my intern year of internal misery and off to radiology!

I saw this following post on the AuntMinnie Radiiology website a while ago and got a good laugh out of it. read on....




i hate medicine internship

i hate having been q4 in the ICU for the last 2 months

i hate admitting patients all night and then being forced to present them at morning report without using my notes, and then being pimped on all my "mistakes" by a bright-eyed attending

i hate getting woken up at 20 minute intervals in the early morning about critical lab values on cross-cover patients i know nothing about

i hate nurses and respiratory therapists (RTs) who challenge my orders and must be cajoled into carrying them out

i hate the fact that nurses and RTs have power over me because if I'm not nice, they can torture me all night by paging me for stupid little things

i hate nurses and RTs who don't know the limits of their knowledge, and think their 20 years of experience trumps evidence based guidelines, such as the futility of giving bicarb in septic acidemic patients who are circling the drain

i hate having to take short hits the day after you're post-call

i hate sitting through morning report, didactic sessions, noon conference, and walk rounds

i hate residents who are racist and consider medical care a privilege for spanish speaking patients, who they assume are illegal aliens

i hate medicine residents & interns who complain about stuff we all go through, and who can't suck it up and keep their mouth shut. (this thread doesn't count, i never complain in the hospital; see below)

i hate writing notes

i hate running code-blues in the vent unit on trach'd and PEG'd and gorked gomers who come to the ICU and stay on my service forever

i hate bouncebacks

i hate it when everytime i'm about to leave, something happens that keeps me in the hospital an extra 30 minutes/1 hour

i hate being sick with a fever and runny nose and cough and seeing clinic patients who are healthier than me. get the f*** out and don't come back until you're really sick!

i hate having to be strong and never complaining to fellow interns/residents/attendings

i hate not having had a life for the past 6months

i hate sticking my finger up someone's anus and smelling their fart

i hate being accustomed to looking at fat old ladies naked

i hate not getting enough sleep at night

i hate having to research a topic and present it

i hate people signing out unstable patients

i hate LPs

i hate tapping effusions on fat people on the vent

i hate doing fem lines when i don't get it on the first few tries and spend 15 minutes torturing the patient and sweating like a pig

i hate it when my resident asks me something i should know (what was the white count up today?) but can't remember without flipping through my notes

i hate having only 4 days of vacation a month

i hate being sleep deprived and eating unhealthy cafeteria food everyday

i hate medicine internship!

 

[Foxxy Cleopatra]

MY LAST DAY OF INTERNSHIP IS TOMORROW!

thank god

Now I can page everyone to *2 instead of *1.

👍

 

[VentdependenT]

Entertaining post. I was curious as to what "gorked" meant. Looked it up on the net and here is what I found. For those that care...

Gorked (from word wizard.com)

We suspect that the word you refer to is a corruption of ?gorked,? a slang medical term which originally meant "anesthetized". It dates from before the 1970s, though no one seems to know the origin of the term, other than the guess that it was coined due to its expressive sound, and perhaps due to its similarity to the word ?dork.? The noun ?gork? was back-formed from ?gorked? in the early 1970s, having the meaning "a severely brain-damaged person". A brief scan of the Web showed the word ?gorked? still being used to mean "anesthetized" or "doped up", as in "I was gorked on Valium". I ran across the word for the first time recently when a profoundly brain-damaged infant was referred to as ?gorked.? It's not difficult to see how the word might come to be applied to anything that is damaged or not working properly, or, as you phrased it, "messed up."

 

[dobonedoc]

I feel your pain; and hope, that by taking that calm moment to reflect upon your feelings you now find yourself in that post-ictal bliss only brought about by such a catharsis.