Making room for MS3s....

[indo]

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speaking of pimping: "What liquid are the chromate sutures stored in?" Some of the MCW folks may recognize this question. haha. ugg. "How do they get the chromate on to the suture?"

 

[Ashers]

speaking of pimping: "What liquid are the chromate sutures stored in?" Some of the MCW folks may recognize this question. haha. ugg. "How do they get the chromate on to the suture?"

Wassermann?

Don't forget vicryl degrades to sugar. I've heard that countless times on derm this month.

 

[indo]

yup. haha. You had ob/gyn down here at St. Mary's?

 

[Ashers]

yup. haha. You had ob/gyn down here at St. Mary's?

Sure did. Less hours on an average week than Psych! (d/t the whole able to leave after clinic on Wednesdays, only if you forget about call days).

Someone made a Wassermann common pimp question sheet last year, but I never went into any cases with him.

 

[45408]

3am? that's just stupid. why not show up at 11pm and get a real head start on things?

 

[smq123]

3am? that's just stupid. why not show up at 11pm and get a real head start on things?

Don't joke about that. I actually considered doing that for a while. The only thing stopping me was knowing that the I&Os and other vitals would be outdated by the time the chief came by to round.

I know that 3 AM sounds ridiculous (it does to a lot of my classmates too), but there wasn't really any other way to see 12 patients before 6 AM. A lot of those patients were SICU players, and I'm still just learning how to become comfortable checking their vent settings, examining their vacs, and taking care of problems with their JPs or NGTs. Plus, since I'm a 4th year, I still have to write "full" notes - including labs (attending preference), full I&Os (which were often inaccurate - NO ONE urinates "2 ccs" overnight and still has a creatinine of 0.8 - so I'd have to try and recalculate them, which takes time), etc. Since I'm a 4th year, I also don't get sign out from nightfloat, so I only found out about any acute events that happened overnight by talking to the nurse or reading the nursing notes.

It's gotten better ever since the other 4th year started. Now, I'm only getting in at 4 AM. 😉

 

[Tired]

3am? that's just stupid. why not show up at 11pm and get a real head start on things?

There was a week on Surgery as an MS3 that I got in between 2:00 - 2:30am in order to see my patients.

As Dre pointed out in another thread, if you want honors you gotta go get it.

 

[45408]

There was a week on Surgery as an MS3 that I got in between 2:00 - 2:30am in order to see my patients.

As Dre pointed out in another thread, if you want honors you gotta go get it.

is there actually a good reason to make morning rounds in the middle of the night? most people are probably falling asleep between 11-12 and waking up around 6 in a hospital.

 

[Tippmann]

is there actually a good reason to make morning rounds in the middle of the night?

To teach those lazy patients a lesson.

Can you imagine? Lying in bed all day long. The gall 😱

 

[smq123]

is there actually a good reason to make morning rounds in the middle of the night?

To be able to see more patients before rounds.

If you only have 3-4 patients to see, and you round at 7, then sure - you can preround at 5 or 6.

If you have 13-14 patients to see, and you round at 6 - better plan on getting up when most college students are going to bed.

 

[45408]

To be able to see more patients before rounds.

If you only have 3-4 patients to see, and you round at 7, then sure - you can preround at 5 or 6.

If you have 13-14 patients to see, and you round at 6 - better plan on getting up when most college students are going to bed.

but what's the point of the M3 rounding before the M4 rounding before the intern rounding before the resident rounding before the attending?

 

[Tippmann]

but what's the point of the M3 rounding before the M4 rounding before the intern rounding before the resident rounding before the attending?

Crush morale.

Lower team spirit.

Maintain pecking order.

You know, the classics.

 

[45408]

Crush morale.

Lower team spirit.

Maintain pecking order.

You know, the classics.

I'll just do my rounding at 2. In the afternoon.

I was just talking with an intern who went to a different med school, and she said that the med students were never to show up before 5 on any of their rotations.

 

[indo]

but what's the point of the M3 rounding before the M4 rounding before the intern rounding before the resident rounding before the attending?

to piss off the patient.
"YES. I HAVE PASSED GAS. NO, I HAVE NOT HAD A BOWEL MOVEMENT!"