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Currently on purple team doing my peds sub-I. First overnight call tomorrow, blech.
 
Gimlet said:
Let's do an M3/M4 roll call:

I'm doing my Neurosurgery Sub-I at Froedtert this month.
I saw Splat in the FMLH ED at an ungodly early hour this AM.
Sounds like Ashers is in the OC doing...ortho, I assume?
Where is everybody else?
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11pm to 7a. It was sweet. It was busy but steady and manageable until we had a lady with sepsis, a stab wound, a rollover accident, a pedestrian vs. car, and another stabbing all within about 45 minutes. It was fun watching the trauma team literally go from bed to bed in the trauma bay like a buffet. ED was on divert for a couple hours until the staffing ramped up for the morning.
 
I'm at Joe's for medicine, just finished at FMLH. Saw yeasterbunny yesterday morning.
 
Gimlet said:
Let's do an M3/M4 roll call:

I'm doing my Neurosurgery Sub-I at Froedtert this month.
I saw Splat in the FMLH ED at an ungodly early hour this AM.
Sounds like Ashers is in the OC doing...ortho, I assume?
Where is everybody else?
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Like totally correct assumption. Second over night call.
 
st. mary's C section conveyor belt...therefore, directv hates puppies.
 
Gimlet said:
Wow, you've already reverted to the SoCal dialect and everything!
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Even I noticed I've said like more.

I got points taken off from presentations (aka current events) in 4th grade for saying "like" and "um" too often. (Not nearly as much as Cirillo from CTB though.)

indo said:
st. mary's C section conveyor belt...therefore, directv hates puppies.
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I was the C section black cloud and even the nurses recognized it.
 
MICU at the VA. We currently have 2 patients.
 
akpete said:
MICU at the VA. We currently have 2 patients.
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Nice. Froedtert's MICU should send some of theirs over. They manage to spill into all the other Froedtert ICUs on a regular basis.
 
akpete said:
MICU at the VA. We currently have 2 patients.
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Feel free to keep it that way for me when I start there next month. 😀

Btw, call is tiring.
 
Ashers said:
I was the C section black cloud and even the nurses recognized it.
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My presence puts them into the labor holding pattern until it is c section time. If I leave for more than 15 minutes they all start delivering at incredible rates. haha.
 
I've been assigned psych at the VAMC. I'll have to stop flaunting my cleavage so they won't fondle me there. How is psych over there anyway?
 
indo said:
I've been assigned psych at the VAMC. I'll have to stop flaunting my cleavage so they won't fondle me there. How is psych over there anyway?
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I did psych at the VA. I worked longer and harder than students at the other sites but saw very interesting crazy people. People say you see lots of PTSD but I really didn't see that much (maybe those people get outpatient treatment?). I would say the majority of my patients were actively psychotic.
 
Yeah for the inpatient service I saw plenty of PTSD, or at least everybody tries to claim they have it because of the benefits (there's also a strong positive stigma to having PTSD among some of the vets...they talk about it like a badge of honor). Almost every patient will be alcoholic or polysubstance abuse, and there are tons of frequent flyers who claim suicidal or homicidal ideation to get a warm bed and a free meal. Good autonomy for students, and the hours aren't horrible, but definitely not the best among psych sites. If you're assigned to the consult service it's a lot of evals for delirium.

If you're alphabetically first among the students assigned to psych at the VA, you'll be on the outpatient service...which means you'll be home by 10am most days.

You don't find out until the 1st day of the rotation which service you're on.
 
Gimlet said:
If you're alphabetically first among the students assigned to psych at the VA, you'll be on the outpatient service...which means you'll be home by 10am most days.
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Well, that bodes well for me. Hmmmmmm....




So today sucks. I walked out to my car at 6:38am and saw that I'd gotten a parking ticket, the morning after my brother and sister-in-law were talking about all of their parking tickets. They jinxed me. I got a ticket at 6:30am. There's $30 I didn't need anyways, I guess. 🙄
 
Not sure if the alphabetical thing still holds true for getting outpatient at the VA. I know someone who had it last Jan/Feb whose last name is an O. He said he watched lots of movies that month.
 
HOLY CRAP GUYS!!!! I heard that Brett Favre is thinking about coming out of retirement!!!! That'll be so awesome for him to be back with the Packers!!!!!!!!*
 
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I'll be seeing a lot of post-farve stress disorder on psych.
 
Hey, how is donnyfuego doin' in the urologicology? Does that have a transitional year?


anyone do neurovascular for neuro?
 
Prowler: 27th St. near Capitol. Shady area? I have to do an ambulance ride along with Med 5 out there for the ER rotation. I'm hoping to see some fun stuff.
 
Agent Splat said:
Prowler: 27th St. near Capitol. Shady area? I have to do an ambulance ride along with Med 5 out there for the ER rotation. I'm hoping to see some fun stuff.
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Haha, but of course. I'm sure you'll get to meet and greet the knife and gun club over there.
 
TheProwler said:
Haha, but of course. I'm sure you'll get to meet and greet the knife and gun club over there.
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sweeeeet.

i like how they want us to dress relatively professional looking for this, but I've already seen plenty of the milwaukee medics showing up in shorts or untucked MFD t-shirts. at least they won't make me wear a smock.
 
Agent Splat said:
sweeeeet.

i like how they want us to dress relatively professional looking for this, but I've already seen plenty of the milwaukee medics showing up in shorts or untucked MFD t-shirts. at least they won't make me wear a smock.
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Definitely don't wear a tie. They'll laugh their asses off.
 
TheProwler said:
MFD has a slogan? wait, let me guess: "Turf with the best or drive grandma to the nursing home like the rest."
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i've seen "Simply the Best" on the back of some of their rigs.

but you can't beat Bell's: "If it doesn't say Bell on the side, you've just been taken for a ride!" (though at Bell's main office once, I did see an old poster with the slogan "If it doesn't say Bell on the side, this could be your ride." A little dark. I like it.
 
Hey prowler, what does the scouting report say about medicine at St. Joe's?
 
indo said:
Hey prowler, what does the scouting report say about medicine at St. Joe's?
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Free lunch every day*. Easy cheesy schedule - if you're not out by 2pm it's a bad day.



*you'll be nauseated by the sight of it by the end of the 2nd week, yet will continue to eat it for some ungodly reason.
 
Gimlet said:
Free lunch every day*. Easy cheesy schedule - if you're not out by 2pm it's a bad day.



*you'll be nauseated by the sight of it by the end of the 2nd week, yet will continue to eat it for some ungodly reason.
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In that case, I've had about 80% bad days. I think I liked it more at 'dert, although my resident and interns are pretty awesome here. I'm pretty sick of conferences though. Thursday is 9am junior rounds, 10:30 attending rounds, noon conference, 1-3pm MKSAP session. two hours of patients, six hours of class. just what I wanted out of my third year.
 
Gimlet said:
... if you're not out by 2pm it's a bad day.
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True only when you are not on call (which currently is q4 but looks like it will be changing soon, maybe next month). And like everything else it is very resident-dependent which may also be partially the case with Prowler. And of course it depends how busy your service happens to be. My students last month almost always got out by 2-2:30.
 
yeasterbunny said:
True only when you are not on call (which currently is q4 but looks like it will be changing soon, maybe next month).
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Changing for the better, or worse?

Hey, what OB did you guys wind up choosing over at Joe's? (If you don't mind saying.)
 
1 more night on call, then back to Milwaukee soon.

So last night/this morning, we had this auto vs peds. We were consulted for a tib-fib (this dude's lower leg's broken in about 3 places, he had like 3 joints between his knee and ankle). Anyway, so I was looking at the other films, and I found a proximal humerus fx on the CXR. My resident was like "Good thing you saw that, but what on earth were you doing looking a the chest xray?" 😀 (the answer is clavicles and I've found old prox humeral fx on CXR before.)

The dude ended up with broken bones in each extremity.
 
Ashers said:
1 more night on call, then back to Milwaukee soon.

So last night/this morning, we had this auto vs peds. We were consulted for a tib-fib (this dude's lower leg's broken in about 3 places, he had like 3 joints between his knee and ankle). Anyway, so I was looking at the other films, and I found a proximal humerus fx on the CXR. My resident was like "Good thing you saw that, but what on earth were you doing looking a the chest xray?" 😀 (the answer is clavicles and I've found old prox humeral fx on CXR before.)

The dude ended up with broken bones in each extremity.
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Strong work!

One of the most disturbing things I've seen so far in med school was on anesthesiology when a lady with a tib/fib came in. When the nurse raised her leg to prep her and her whole foot and ankle flopped down at a 90 degree angle, I almost lost it. It wasn't actually that gut-wrenching or anything, but I just wasn't expecting it at the time.
 
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