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maybe i'm just a high-strung person.
i don't know what it is anymore, but i find myself getting sooooo angry with the complete asinine BS that i have to deal with. viscerally, shakingly angry.
i have 40 cross cover patients and a nurse calls me with a request for a patient and she doesn't even know what service the patient is on and doesn't know the patient's name, just a room number. no i will not see the patient until you can tell me what service the patient is on and what their name is.
i get called 4 times for temperature >101.5 on a cross-cover patient who is being appropriately worked up (pan-cultured, filmed, scanned, started on empiric abx, etc) and the nurses decide to call the senior resident because they weren't comfortable with my order for "tylenol and cooling measures" [exactly what i was signed out to do, btw, as the team knows about the fever and they're working it up currently.] so they page my senior resident [who, of course, comes back to me with WHY THE HELL AM I GETTING PAGED FOR CROSS COVER PATIENTS THAT IS AN INTERN'S JOB.]
an ED resident looks at patient from across the room and say "yeah, that looks like a trauma" and pages it out as a trauma before even seeing the patient, and then comes back about an hour later and says "so did you work that patient up? what did the scans show? is the trauma workup done?" come the **** on can't you work up your own patients? really? the woman just tripped and fell on a sidewalk - is this really a trauma patient or can the emergency department handle the workup on their own?
consult pager goes off - urgent care wants us to see someone for belly pain when they haven't even drawn labs on the patient. then they get angry when they're asked to please at least get a WBC first before calling a surgical consult.
and someone ate my treat that i had saved for my on-call night.
i'm finding myself increasingly unable to just let things go and i am getting miserable and incredibly homicidal.
so whatcha think? boxing? yoga? rocking and peeing in the corner? i'm starting to take all this negativity home with me all the d@mn time and it's making me a really miserable person. yeah - bottom of the totem pole and **** slides downhill ... i am having such a hard time just shaking things off .....
i don't know what it is anymore, but i find myself getting sooooo angry with the complete asinine BS that i have to deal with. viscerally, shakingly angry.
i have 40 cross cover patients and a nurse calls me with a request for a patient and she doesn't even know what service the patient is on and doesn't know the patient's name, just a room number. no i will not see the patient until you can tell me what service the patient is on and what their name is.
i get called 4 times for temperature >101.5 on a cross-cover patient who is being appropriately worked up (pan-cultured, filmed, scanned, started on empiric abx, etc) and the nurses decide to call the senior resident because they weren't comfortable with my order for "tylenol and cooling measures" [exactly what i was signed out to do, btw, as the team knows about the fever and they're working it up currently.] so they page my senior resident [who, of course, comes back to me with WHY THE HELL AM I GETTING PAGED FOR CROSS COVER PATIENTS THAT IS AN INTERN'S JOB.]
an ED resident looks at patient from across the room and say "yeah, that looks like a trauma" and pages it out as a trauma before even seeing the patient, and then comes back about an hour later and says "so did you work that patient up? what did the scans show? is the trauma workup done?" come the **** on can't you work up your own patients? really? the woman just tripped and fell on a sidewalk - is this really a trauma patient or can the emergency department handle the workup on their own?
consult pager goes off - urgent care wants us to see someone for belly pain when they haven't even drawn labs on the patient. then they get angry when they're asked to please at least get a WBC first before calling a surgical consult.
and someone ate my treat that i had saved for my on-call night.
i'm finding myself increasingly unable to just let things go and i am getting miserable and incredibly homicidal.
so whatcha think? boxing? yoga? rocking and peeing in the corner? i'm starting to take all this negativity home with me all the d@mn time and it's making me a really miserable person. yeah - bottom of the totem pole and **** slides downhill ... i am having such a hard time just shaking things off .....