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So, today, during my 534-hour call shift on OB-Gyn, I had a patient who was going to get a psych consult. I decided to page the C/L psych resident to see if they would page me back when they went in to see her, so I could go with them, if that was ok. But then it turns out that the first, second, third, and fourth numbers I called (it's a weekend) all led to various forms of busy tone, voicemail, and being put on hold. After awhile I started to wonder if our hospital's phone system was specifically designed to filter out overly eager medical students who might want to attend consults? Eventually, so much time had passed that I actually got paged to attend a ruptured ectopic surgery (this almost never happens--I'm just trying to give a sense of the passage of time here). So I ran off to the surgery and nothing ever happened with me attending the psych consult, which I had very much hoped to do.
Do other med students try to attend their patients' consults, or is it just me? Does anyone actually succeed in getting AHOLD of these consultants and having them remember to page you? If so, what's your strategy? During various rotations I've called GI, pulm, psych, derm, pain, neuro, and multiple other services--never to any avail, not even ONCE! What's wrong with me? Is it annoying to the residents who do the consults to get bugged by the med student?
Do other med students try to attend their patients' consults, or is it just me? Does anyone actually succeed in getting AHOLD of these consultants and having them remember to page you? If so, what's your strategy? During various rotations I've called GI, pulm, psych, derm, pain, neuro, and multiple other services--never to any avail, not even ONCE! What's wrong with me? Is it annoying to the residents who do the consults to get bugged by the med student?