Thank the lord!

[soon2bdoc2003]

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....that I went into anesthesia. Just 1 week of sicu has been enough to show me i made the right choice with my life. I also have a real appreciation for the unrelenting torture these poor schmucks have to endure every day for 5-9 years of their lives. And here i was thinking IM was painful but wow.. nothing like having to work like an animal nonstop for 30+ hours while fighting off all kinds of senior crybabies and whiney attendings. Just 7 weeks to go before I'm back to the little things i will so appreciate after this experience such as:

-working with normal human beings
-a chair with good back support and wheels
-1 patient at a time
-that am coffee break that so hits the spot
-going home post call at *exactly* 24 hours after you came in
-no rounds
-a curtain in between me and the surgeons (might try wearing a drape over my head next call)
-my old anesthesia call room, complete with comfortable CLEAN bed and a TV (surgery rooms get sheet changes ~ once a week and only have a phone and alarm clock)
-my beloved datex/ohmeda anesthesia machine

and what i miss the most.. my fellow anesthesiologists! amazing how the field can draw such a great group of people. As far as the next 7 weeks go.. I'll be spending lots of money at the liquor store down the street.

 

[gaslady]

-a curtain in between me and the surgeons (might try wearing a drape over my head next call)
QUOTE]

it's called the blood brain barrier!!

 

[Goose...Fraba]

-a curtain in between me and the surgeons (might try wearing a drape over my head next call)
QUOTE]

it's called the blood brain barrier!!

funny thing, the last surgeon i did a rotation with told this same exact joke, although i believe he thought he was the brain! i just kinda looked at him, as i said to myself (shouldve said it out loud), wtf planet did you come from? *****

 

[MD Dreams]

....that I went into anesthesia. Just 1 week of sicu has been enough to show me i made the right choice with my life. I also have a real appreciation for the unrelenting torture these poor schmucks have to endure every day for 5-9 years of their lives. And here i was thinking IM was painful but wow.. nothing like having to work like an animal nonstop for 30+ hours while fighting off all kinds of senior crybabies and whiney attendings. Just 7 weeks to go before I'm back to the little things i will so appreciate after this experience such as:

-working with normal human beings
-a chair with good back support and wheels
-1 patient at a time
-that am coffee break that so hits the spot
-going home post call at *exactly* 24 hours after you came in
-no rounds
-a curtain in between me and the surgeons (might try wearing a drape over my head next call)
-my old anesthesia call room, complete with comfortable CLEAN bed and a TV (surgery rooms get sheet changes ~ once a week and only have a phone and alarm clock)
-my beloved datex/ohmeda anesthesia machine

and what i miss the most.. my fellow anesthesiologists! amazing how the field can draw such a great group of people. As far as the next 7 weeks go.. I'll be spending lots of money at the liquor store down the street.

Would you mind elaborating on what you didn't like about SICU? Thank you.

 

[Skip Intro]

funny thing, the last surgeon i did a rotation with told this same exact joke, although i believe he thought he was the brain! i just kinda looked at him, as i said to myself (shouldve said it out loud), wtf planet did you come from? *****

You should have just chuckled and said, "Well, doc, just remember that I'm not the one with my hands in the patient's belly." If he then couldn't grasp the concept that he was, in fact, the one in the "blood" then you'd be right... truly a *****. Actually, he probably heard that from an anesthesiologist one time and (again erroneously) thought he was referring to the surgeon being the brain. Surgeons (even future ones)... so egocentric.

-Skip

 

[drfeelgood]

....that I went into anesthesia. Just 1 week of sicu has been enough to show me i made the right choice with my life. I also have a real appreciation for the unrelenting torture these poor schmucks have to endure every day for 5-9 years of their lives.

Man...i feel your pain....just finished my 2 months in the slammer. I enjoyed SICU as a med student, but hated it as a resident.

what i hated the most was the disrepect you get from old SICU nurses.

Most of my "Doctors Orders" were simply doctors requests, subject to modification per the charge nurse or nurse manager.

Thank God I'm back in the OR, where it takes you only 30 seconds to start a drip rather than 30 minutes and a rise in MAP of at least 30 mmHG.