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We've had a thread like this before, but it's been a while, and I think we have a bunch of new people around....so let's hear it....what kind of crap do you keep with you everyday at work....residents and attendings.

1) stethescope
2) ultra-fine tipped ball point pen
3) pager
4) Kenwood UHF radio
5) Blackberry with epocrates and internet access
6) hospital id needed to access secure areas
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
8) daily OR schedule
9) leatherman juice


and believe it or not, I use all the s hit

and no, I don't use a gay ass fanny pack
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Ive become a minimalist.

Stethescope(+esophogeal when on peds)
pen
pager(x3 when oncall)
cell phone
gum

When I first started out as a CA1, I carried a messenger bag with a couple pocket anesthesia/pharm dosing books but that really got old. Now this sits in the resident lounge most every day or the call room.
 
Stethoscope
Fine point pens x 2
Sharpie marker
Palm pilot
Pager
Scissors
One pack of sterile gloves always in my back pocket
 
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  • Facility ID
  • Stethoscope
  • Pager
  • Cell
  • PDA (loaded with Sota, Barasch, A to Z, TMAP, SPA)
  • Pen (whatever I find)
  • Sharpie
  • Battery powered Respironics Finger Pulsox (around neck), that dang thing is expensive
  • Ear Piece with rubber extension (safety pinned on scrubs)
  • Nerve Stim
  • BAAM
(Have small hip-pack on waist)
 
Stethoscope, pen, cellphone, hospital wireless phone, pager (when on call), I try to keep it to a minimum. There are times I forget one or more of the above. I used to wear my ID but now I don't. My retractable ID thing broke and I just haven't replaced it. Besides, it's kinda fun to show up, tube somebody and leave without anybody knowing who you are. I have had a few where nobody even asked.
 
militarymd said:
We've had a thread like this before, but it's been a while, and I think we have a bunch of new people around....so let's hear it....what kind of crap do you keep with you everyday at work....residents and attendings.

1) stethescope
2) ultra-fine tipped ball point pen
3) pager
4) Kenwood UHF radio
5) Blackberry with epocrates and internet access
6) hospital id needed to access secure areas
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
8) daily OR schedule
9) leatherman juice
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I dont wear a watch. I dont carry a stethescope.....22cm at the lips unless theres some kinda issue....for pedi cases I listen with the cheapo stethescope in the room.

I have a

1)beeper on my scrub waistline and a

2)cellphone, pen, and a canna Copenhagen in my scrubs pocket.

I leave my wallet in da monsta truck and my Littman stethescope in my white coat which I wear whenever I go somewhere in the hospital. My hospital ID is clipped to it so that solves the limited access area issue. I come in in the morning, hang it up in the doctors locker room in the OR, and in a loyalist way considering I live in LSU land, make sure DA U insignia faces outward.


UHHHH....MIL.... whats the flashlight for? Are ya pullin' people over in the hallway like in SUPERTROOPERS?:laugh:

line from the movie:

........"LITTERING AND? LITTERING AND? LITTERING AND.......SMOKIN THE REEFER."😆😆

Whats leatherman juice?
 
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jetproppilot said:
I dont wear a watch. I dont carry a stethescope.....22cm at the lips unless theres some kinda issue....for pedi cases I listen with the cheapo stethescope in the room.

I have a

1)beeper on my scrub waistline and a

2)cellphone, pen, and a canna Copenhagen in my scrubs pocket.

I leave my wallet in da monsta truck and my Littman stethescope in my white coat which I wear whenever I go somewhere in the hospital. My hospital ID is clipped to it so that solves the limited access area issue. I come in in the morning, hang it up in the doctors locker room in the OR, and in a loyalist way considering I live in LSU land, make sure DA U insignia faces outward.


UHHHH....MIL.... whats the flashlight for? Are ya pullin' people over in the hallway like in SUPERTROOPERS?:laugh:

line from the movie:

........"LITTERING AND? LITTERING AND? LITTERING AND.......SMOKIN THE REEFER."😆😆

Whats leatherman juice?
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The flashlight is left over from the Navy days when you're on a ship, and when the power goes out, and it frequently does......it is PITCH black.

It's a aaa powered little thing that is bright as hell...it's clipped to my ID.


The leatherman juice is smaller than a can of Copenhagen....it's got pliers, knife, scissors, etc.....comes in real handy when bottles of local does quite open right, or if I have to jury rig crap in the OR to might stuff work my way.

I'm waiting for the day when I get to cut someone's neck open with the knife on that thing....I keep it reeeaaalll sharp.
 
militarymd said:
We've had a thread like this before, but it's been a while, and I think we have a bunch of new people around....so let's hear it....what kind of crap do you keep with you everyday at work....residents and attendings.

1) stethescope
2) ultra-fine tipped ball point pen
3) pager
4) Kenwood UHF radio
5) Blackberry with epocrates and internet access
6) hospital id needed to access secure areas
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
8) daily OR schedule
9) leatherman juice


and believe it or not, I use all the s hit

and no, I don't use a gay ass fanny pack
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Oh and I left out my Casio Atomic clock synced watch...so that my anesthesia times are always correct....I hate the way EVERY single fricken clock in the hospital is different.
 
I've become a minimalist.

Pen.

cell phone.


Hospital ID
 
potentagent said:
WTF?? Why is it everyone is giving me grief?? Christ......
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AHHHHHHHH C'MON DUDE...

what did the officer say on STRIPES?....

"LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS."

Justa little humor.....

and for you dudes in any specialty that trained at CHARITY you'll remember the staff anesthesiologist that was green before living green was cool.....dudes been there for like 25 years..rides his bike to work....wears some weird jumpsuit.....vegan.....eats only free reign eggs....anyway, Dude has a FANNY PACK that contains, I think, more stuff then you'd find in a Mexican OR....dude carries a handle with several blades, bougie, vials and vials of induction agents/paralyzers, stethescope, flinstone ear thinghy for esophageal stethescope, etc etc.....

POTENT, ARE YOU THIS ATTENDINGS SON?😆


JUST KIDDING BRO, JUST KIDDING.....DON'T STALK ME....
 
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pd4emergence said:
Besides, it's kinda fun to show up, tube somebody and leave without anybody knowing who you are. I have had a few where nobody even asked.
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"Uhhh...who was that dude?"

"Shut-up man, I don't care. We've got an airway. Prep the patient."

"But we haven't done the timeout! I should file an incident report!"
 
jetproppilot said:
CHARITY[/B] you'll remember the staff anesthesiologist that was green before living green was cool.....dudes been there for like 25 years..rides his bike to work....wears some weird jumpsuit.....vegan.....eats only free reign eggs....anyway, Dude has a FANNY PACK that contains, I think, more stuff then you'd find in a Mexican OR....dude carries a handle with several blades, bougie, vials and vials of induction agents/paralyzers, stethescope, flinstone ear thinghy for esophageal stethescope, etc etc.....

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Dr. J. R. and vegan dentist wife pre-Katrina had a really nice turn-of-the-century house in Algiers Point, directly across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter. Wearing a white jump suit over his green scrubs he'd ride his 10 speed one block from his house to the West Bank landing of the Canal Street ferry, take the ferry to the East Bank, then ride about one mile down side streets through the central business district to Charity Hospital. He was quite proud of the money and time he saved doing this as compared to driving a car and hunting a parking spot.

After the storm they moved to English Turn, now he has a 30 mile daily commute.

His fanny pack...... It's actually a military web belt with four canteen pouches, filled to the brims with all sorts of stuff. He wears a sleeveless hunting vest in the OR, and all those pockets are stuffed with other items. He says he's used/needed everything he carries at least once in a crisis situation.

After graduating from Emory, he did internship in Australia "just for the heck of it." Residency back in New Orleans at LSU, became staff, and never left. Currently teaching himself Russian, and has become pretty facile reading and writing in Cyrillic.

Became an outcast with LSU when in the 1990s he was part of a big movement against LSU neurosurgeon Dr. Carey, who had a huge Army contract to ..... well, read for yourself:


In 1992 and again in 1994, doctors with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine testified before Congress on military animal use and worked with the General Accounting Office in an investigation of Michael Carey's experiments at Louisiana State University. Carey shot 700 restrained cats in the head to "model" human injuries. As a result of the investigation, Carey's cat-shooting experiments were halted.

He and wife are members of PETA. It probably cost him a chance at becoming department chairman after Dr. Naraghi (successor to Dr. Adriani) retired a few years ago.


Also (I think) famous for: "In the business world, time is money. Here at Charity Hospital, time is ........................................... just time."
.
 
Arch Guillotti said:
dude whats a free reign egg?
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An egg made by a chicken that isnt confined to a cage or a house.

Chicken runs around territory and plops eggs where chicken wants.....I guess it speaks for exploiting the egg, albeit on the chicken's terms, not mans.

if Jet smoked dope this would be the time to roll up a tight hydroponics blunt, turn on some Cypress Hill and take a big toke.....
 
potentagent said:
  • Facility ID
  • Stethoscope
  • Pager
  • Cell
  • PDA (loaded with Sota, Barasch, A to Z, TMAP, SPA)
  • Pen (whatever I find)
  • Sharpie
  • Battery powered Respironics Finger Pulsox (around neck), that dang thing is expensive
    [*]Ear Piece with rubber extension (safety pinned on scrubs)
  • Nerve Stim
  • BAAM
(Have small hip-pack on waist)
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Dude,

do me a favor.


Take the safety pinned flinstone thinghy off your scrubs.

:slap:
 
jetproppilot said:
An egg made by a chicken that isnt confined to a cage or a house.

Chicken runs around territory and plops eggs where chicken wants.....I guess it speaks for exploiting the egg, albeit on the chicken's terms, not mans.
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Nice, Jet.

I'm pretty sure the term is free range, as in they have a free range to explore as opposed to the chicken mills where thousands live under a tin roof. Anyone seen that Dirty Jobs episode? Enough to make me stop eating chicken. And I'm also pretty sure the free range chickens still lay eggs in their coop, otherwise it would be chick abandonment, leaving poor eggs all over the wilderness, half-cracked from the hard earth they fell onto.

Nonetheless, your free reign was mighty entertaining, but my mind pictures these free reign chickens running around ordering US to lay the eggs, beyotch. Now that's free reign.
 
Bertelman said:
Nice, Jet.

I'm pretty sure the term is free range, as in they have a free range to explore as opposed to the chicken mills where thousands live under a tin roof. Anyone seen that Dirty Jobs episode? Enough to make me stop eating chicken. And I'm also pretty sure the free range chickens still lay eggs in their coop, otherwise it would be chick abandonment, leaving poor eggs all over the wilderness, half-cracked from the hard earth they fell onto.

Nonetheless, your free reign was mighty entertaining, but my mind pictures these free reign chickens running around ordering US to lay the eggs, beyotch. Now that's free reign.
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:laugh:

OK, I'M A DUMB A SS.

Thanks, Bert.

FREE RANGE chickens.

yes, I'm a dumba ss.:laugh:
 
bertelman said:
nice, Jet.

I'm Pretty Sure The Term Is free Range, As In They Have A Free Range To Explore As Opposed To The Chicken Mills Where Thousands Live Under A Tin Roof. Anyone Seen That Dirty Jobs Episode? Enough To Make Me Stop Eating Chicken. And I'm Also Pretty Sure The Free Range Chickens Still Lay Eggs In Their Coop, Otherwise It Would Be Chick Abandonment, Leaving Poor Eggs All Over The Wilderness, Half-cracked From The Hard Earth They Fell Onto.

nonetheless, Your Free Reign Was Mighty Entertaining, But My Mind Pictures These Free Reign Chickens Running Around Ordering Us To Lay The Eggs, Beyotch. Now that's Free Reign.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

i think i just pee peed in my panties rereading Berts rip on me
 
jetproppilot said:
Dude,

do me a favor.


Take the safety pinned flinstone thinghy off your scrubs.

:slap:
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Ah, man, I use the damn thing all the time :shrug: old habits die hard.

Sidenote, I do gotta say for what it is worth that the finger pulsox is worth the money (about 650.00)
 
In Messenger bag:
Case log book
Reading material - journals, magazines
PDA with anesthesia reference materials
stethoscope
cell phone charger
toothbrush
calculator
scissors
hair brush
Clean socks

In Fanny pack (yes, I wear one - it's cute and from Bloomingdales)
lots of pens
pager, cell phone
ID
hand moisturizer
chapstick
organic soap
nail clipper
mirror
keys
credit card, cash
alcohol swabs

And now I want one of those juicer kits that Mil has. I still have room in my bag. I guess I am not a minimalist.
 
militarymd said:
We've had a thread like this before, but it's been a while, and I think we have a bunch of new people around....so let's hear it....what kind of crap do you keep with you everyday at work....residents and attendings.

1) stethescope
2) ultra-fine tipped ball point pen
3) pager
4) Kenwood UHF radio
5) Blackberry with epocrates and internet access
6) hospital id needed to access secure areas
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
8) daily OR schedule
9) leatherman juice


and believe it or not, I use all the s hit

and no, I don't use a gay ass fanny pack
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you forgot the lube
 
jetproppilot said:
An egg made by a chicken that isnt confined to a cage or a house.

Chicken runs around territory and plops eggs where chicken wants.....I guess it speaks for exploiting the egg, albeit on the chicken's terms, not mans.

if Jet smoked dope this would be the time to roll up a tight hydroponics blunt, turn on some Cypress Hill and take a big toke.....
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jet, your bolding and font skills have reached a level described only as farcical, when you bold "on the chicken's terms, not mans." on an anesthesiology forum

haha👍
 
militarymd said:
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
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This is what I have on my keychain now... #812/1000!

surefire_titan.jpg


But I also just ordered a Fenix for every day use.
 
potentagent said:
Sidenote, I do gotta say for what it is worth that the finger pulsox is worth the money (about 650.00)
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Doesn't your hospital know about pulse ox yet? They've been avaiable since the mid 80's. They've come way down in price since then - you should see if they'll buy some for your OR's. 😉
 
Model 37, S&W J Frame and Emerson CQC-HD7, motorcycle key, and cell phone.

Short white coat: pockets filled to brim with numerous answer sources essential for an ascending M3.
 
Pen (sometimes - "borrow" circulator's pen alot)
pager(sometimes)
ID card(sometimes)
 
Me:

  • One extra-large tube of Chapstick (have to kiss a lot of butt in residency)
  • One extra pair of underpants (for after I crap myself when I get deep in the weeds with a patient who's ten times sicker than was first apparent from the medicine resident's notes in the chart who was taking care of them up to the point that I took over)
  • K-Y Jelly (to lube up before I get reamed in the rear-end from some attending)
  • Preparation H (for the aftermath of the reaming)
  • A foam donut (to sit on after applying the Preparation H)
These, of course, are the essentials. I find I don't need anything else, really, because no matter what I say, think, or do in residency, inevitably some attending who can barely speak english is going to tell me that I was wrong anyway. So, I don't bother thinking anymore... at least for now... and until my signature on the chart actually means something.

340 days left until I hear that sweet, "AMFYOYO!"

-copro
 
ESSENTIALS:
- Hospital ID to get in
- Blackberry to surf when I'm sitting there doing nothing
- Pager

PLUS OR MINUS:
- Stethoscope if I remember (if I forget, the crappy disposable one already in the room will do)
- Pen (if I forget, I grab one from the workroom stash)
- A book or articles to read if I'm bored
 
at the end of my residency

a G2 gel pen
a black sharpie
my narc bag
my pager
my wallet
my ID

and that's it

stethoscopes are for p*ssies... not to mention they are all over the hospital and i can always grab one from the nurses... plus whenever i prepped my room i always had one or two plastic (fisher price - MRSA) stethoscopes hanging over my O2 tank on my machine...

i stopped carrying a stethoscope half-way during CA-2 year, couldn't stand the weight/dangling - plus I felt like a flea with it on...

also whenever i was the team leader on call i would have a Miller 3 blade and a 14 gauge in my back pocket
 
So what do you guys, who don't carry stethoscopes, do when you preop a patient?

Tenesma said:
at the end of my residency

a G2 gel pen
a black sharpie
my narc bag
my pager
my wallet
my ID

and that's it

stethoscopes are for p*ssies... not to mention they are all over the hospital and i can always grab one from the nurses... plus whenever i prepped my room i always had one or two plastic (fisher price - MRSA) stethoscopes hanging over my O2 tank on my machine...

i stopped carrying a stethoscope half-way during CA-2 year, couldn't stand the weight/dangling - plus I felt like a flea with it on...

also whenever i was the team leader on call i would have a Miller 3 blade and a 14 gauge in my back pocket
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dr doze said:
Lungs: Clear to inspection of chest wall.

More than 1/2 my partners do not routinely listen to lungs preop. Some will do it selectively, Some will never do it
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From an ASA publication:

At a minimum, a focused preanesthesia physical examination
should include an assessment of the airway,
lungs, and heart, with documentation of vital signs.


That's nice. A practice that allows "more than 1/2" of the partners to behave like this.

No wonder the CRNA's say what they say.
 
jwk said:
Doesn't your hospital know about pulse ox yet? They've been avaiable since the mid 80's. They've come way down in price since then - you should see if they'll buy some for your OR's. 😉
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I was wondering the same thing....When is an anesthesiologist ever more than 20 seconds away from a pulse ox machine if needed?
 
Med student/future anesthesiologist. Different role, different needs:

2 G2 pens (one for me, one for the forgetful resident of the day)
1 Stethoscope - wouldn't think of not having this when someone asked for one.
1 pair of gloves ALWAYS, because you never know...
1 Hospital ID, tagged on front of scrubs
1 role of 1/2" tape. Someone always needs it.
1 Palm phone; I am addicted to checking email.

dc
 
militarymd said:
We've had a thread like this before, but it's been a while, and I think we have a bunch of new people around....so let's hear it....what kind of crap do you keep with you everyday at work....residents and attendings.

1) stethescope
2) ultra-fine tipped ball point pen
3) pager
4) Kenwood UHF radio
5) Blackberry with epocrates and internet access
6) hospital id needed to access secure areas
7) fenix AAA battery powered 75 lumen light
8) daily OR schedule
9) leatherman juice
A Benneli M4 all the time and my pack of Marlboro 100 . Plus the Apple g4 (old fashioned) with a satellite internet, a GSAR watch and a bottle of Chateau Margaux. And of course ....the baby Miller.
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militarymd said:
.....9) leatherman juice......
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Mil, you made me curious. I did a search for the leatherman juice and found several versions: xe6, cs4, s2, and c2. Which version do you have? Any problems with it?

As for me, I carry:

1) 2 Pens
2) ID
3) Keys to cart/locker room/PCA pumps
4) Howland lock -- it has bailed me out a couple of times
5) Pseudo-trauma shears (my real ones walked away)
6) A small Maglite (AA powered)
7) Radiation exposure badge (if I remember it)
8) PDA (mainly use for epocrates, pager numbers, and case logs)

I used to carry a stethoscope (Littman 3), but it walked away twice. For a couple of months now I have just been using the stethoscope hanging on the carts, but after a couple of episodes where it was hard to hear air entry, I'm thinking of getting a mid-price range stethscope. This way if it walks away, I won't feel as bad.
 
it says SC2 on the side. no problems

rsgillmd said:
Mil, you made me curious. I did a search for the leatherman juice and found several versions: xe6, cs4, s2, and c2. Which version do you have? Any problems with it?

As for me, I carry:

1) 2 Pens
2) ID
3) Keys to cart/locker room/PCA pumps
4) Howland lock -- it has bailed me out a couple of times
5) Pseudo-trauma shears (my real ones walked away)
6) A small Maglite (AA powered)
7) Radiation exposure badge (if I remember it)
8) PDA (mainly use for epocrates, pager numbers, and case logs)

I used to carry a stethoscope (Littman 3), but it walked away twice. For a couple of months now I have just been using the stethoscope hanging on the carts, but after a couple of episodes where it was hard to hear air entry, I'm thinking of getting a mid-price range stethscope. This way if it walks away, I won't feel as bad.
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rsgillmd said:
I used to carry a stethoscope (Littman 3), but it walked away twice. For a couple of months now I have just been using the stethoscope hanging on the carts, but after a couple of episodes where it was hard to hear air entry, I'm thinking of getting a mid-price range stethscope. This way if it walks away, I won't feel as bad.
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I've got the Master Classic 2. Slim enough to slide under the drapes/gown, fits nicely between two fingers. Bought it newish (in original packaging) on eBay for like $70.

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Tenesma said:
stethoscopes are for p*ssies... not to mention they are all over the hospital and i can always grab one from the nurses... plus whenever i prepped my room i always had one or two plastic (fisher price - MRSA) stethoscopes hanging over my O2 tank on my machine...

i stopped carrying a stethoscope half-way during CA-2 year, couldn't stand the weight/dangling - plus I felt like a flea with it on...
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http://www.punkparts.com
 
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