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Sometimes I wonder if the redundancy of having patients seen by 3-4 residents/attendings/students isn't just ridiculously inefficient, but man, when it gets crazy it's really helpful. Recently on a really busy shift, one of my senior residents saved a young "worst headache of my life" guy from getting a LP by ordering a flu swab (which was positive). The same night, I caught a guy with a NSTEMI (trop 2.5) because I spent the extra 5 minutes double-checking his past visits and questioning his story and realized that his vague weakness/dizziness complaint was exactly the same as his prior NSTEMI. Oh yeah, unrelated, but the same night, also got a compliment when I tubed a morbidly obese woman on my first shot--attending said, "Good job on the intubation. I thought it was going to be a cluster****." Good shift. 👍
