Into the abyss...

[OB1🤙]

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Intern year starting in T-minus 3 hours.

Scared pretty much $hitless right now. It'll be fine yadayadayada everyone goes through this yadayadayada you'll always have backup yadayadayada just look forward to anesthesia after this year is done yadayada.

All that not so much really helping.

Still scared $hitless.

Deep inside I know it really will be fine.

But there's a whole lot that's gonna happen between right now and it all being fine that has me with The Fear.

Here we go...

 

[SexPanther]

Intern year starting in T-minus 3 hours.

Scared pretty much $hitless right now. It'll be fine yadayadayada everyone goes through this yadayadayada you'll always have backup yadayadayada just look forward to anesthesia after this year is done yadayada.

All that not so much really helping.

Still scared $hitless.

Deep inside I know it really will be fine.

But there's a whole lot that's gonna happen between right now and it all being fine that has me with The Fear.

Here we go...

HB,

I'm with you, starting in the Neuro ICU. Scared $hitless.

 

[lvspro]

I won't tell ya to chill, or give you the "yer gonna be fine" talk that used to piss me off, oh-so-much. Instead, I'll just say , and let us know if y'all need anything.

 

[bubalus]

Everybody's scared their first day. That's good. By the time your last day comes, you'll be a pro, and and be ready to get the hell out of internship and do some anesthesia. Of course, it will be time to be scared all over again. This will keep happening, though less frequently--first day on peds, first heart, etc. Whenever I come up against feelings like that I remind myself that plenty of people more stupid than I am have done it.

I was on call my last day of internship. The new interns came in, and I'd known the one who was taking my place. I gave him the rundown on the patients and told him that patient X had just gone into A-fib with RVR and it was now his turn to deal with it. Talk about deer in the headlights.

Good luck.