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Curious as to what the work environment is like there?
Parkland hospital Dallas
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Its busy.
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One of my friends is a CA2 there, its busy as hell but he loves it. Great attendings residents and cases. For a county hospital, it apparently runs pretty smoothly which is not the case on the east coast to say the least.
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We're not crazy busy at Parkland. M-F there are elective cases in ~18 ORs. eye room typically has 5-6 cases, ENT 3-4, plastics 2-3 cases, vascular/neuro rooms typically have enough cases to go until the afternoon. The scheduled general ORs and gyn rooms have 3-4 cases per day. We always have 1-2 rooms dedicated to emergency general surgery so those run all day. How busy we get depends on the time of year. July obviously things are slower so rooms wont start to shut down until 6-7 pm. June however things shut down around 5pm.
We're not getting a lot of gsw and big open belly traumas. The majority of our traumas that do roll in at night tend to be ortho ORIF/washouts etc.
As a resident rotating through Parkland, if your doing general anesthesia then you'll typically be relieved from your room by 3pm. That said, you take 24 hour call q4. The afternoon boardrunner and call chief are good at making sure you have a few hours of downtime in the afternoon/evening if your on call. If you're doing a subspecialty rotation then you'll be relieved by 5pm because you don't take call and have weekends off.
Most of the surgeries done at parkland tend to be bread and butter, but thats not to say the patients there aren't sick.
Anesthesia techs are helpful at getting stuff for you, but they don't have a-lines/cvp/level-1 in the room before you get there like at other hospitals we rotate at. The circulator nurses are generally friendly. some are lazy, but the one im thinking of probably got fired. Scrub techs are hit or miss. More than adequate anesthesia attendings to bail you out of any emergencies.
OB at parkland however, is a different story. Every c-section is like a trauma w/ hostile nurses and one scrub tech who thinks that by virtue of age she knows everything.
the more elaborate/complicated/cardiac cases take place at our university hospitals.
We're not getting a lot of gsw and big open belly traumas. The majority of our traumas that do roll in at night tend to be ortho ORIF/washouts etc.
As a resident rotating through Parkland, if your doing general anesthesia then you'll typically be relieved from your room by 3pm. That said, you take 24 hour call q4. The afternoon boardrunner and call chief are good at making sure you have a few hours of downtime in the afternoon/evening if your on call. If you're doing a subspecialty rotation then you'll be relieved by 5pm because you don't take call and have weekends off.
Most of the surgeries done at parkland tend to be bread and butter, but thats not to say the patients there aren't sick.
Anesthesia techs are helpful at getting stuff for you, but they don't have a-lines/cvp/level-1 in the room before you get there like at other hospitals we rotate at. The circulator nurses are generally friendly. some are lazy, but the one im thinking of probably got fired. Scrub techs are hit or miss. More than adequate anesthesia attendings to bail you out of any emergencies.
OB at parkland however, is a different story. Every c-section is like a trauma w/ hostile nurses and one scrub tech who thinks that by virtue of age she knows everything.
the more elaborate/complicated/cardiac cases take place at our university hospitals.
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When is the new Parkland going to be finished? Is there also going to be a new St Pauls?
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1,900,000 square feet
$1.27 billion cost
Estimated time to completion: 3 years
The construction company, however, is known for coming in under budget and early or on time so may be sooner. Design team did a hell of a job.
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New St. Paul hospital is in the works, last i heard construction is to begin in a few years. Supposedly, it's going to be built a few blocks down the street from parkland.
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1,900,000 square feet
$1.27 billion cost
Estimated time to completion: 3 years
The construction company, however, is known for coming in under budget and early or on time so may be sooner. Design team did a hell of a job.
Wow, that's gorgeous.
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What is the plan for the old Parkland? Make most of it offices like the building between it and Zale, and lease out a few floors and the burn ICU to an LTAC or something?
