Things I won't miss about prelim IM...
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Heme/onc....1st rotation...4 hours sleep...priceless
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The social work. It was so much fun figuring out the logistics of getting a pt IV abx at an outpatient dialysis center over a holiday weekend.
I felt the warm fuzziness swell up inside me just by typing that.
I felt the warm fuzziness swell up inside me just by typing that.
What specialty are you in?
If you did it right, you shouldn't ever actually be in the hospital. I can count on one finger the number of times I've ever seen a Derm, Ophtho, Rad Onc, Rads, Gas resident on "the floor".
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Ophtho. We have hospital consults.
Absolutely. Every. Single. Thing.
I really don't see how I'm going to make it through the year. Glad to know I'm not alone in this.
I really don't see how I'm going to make it through the year. Glad to know I'm not alone in this.
Don't gas residents go to the floor to do post anesthesia exams? Sure, it's like 1 minute at worse consisting of "Any problems, sore throat, difficulty breathing? Awesome, let me listen to your lungs," but they're on the floors on occasion.
Isn't that what the PACU is for?
When I did a rotation in anesthesia in med school the residents would do some on POD 1. I'm not sure what the criteria was for that, but it wasn't rare for them to pop upstairs for 15 minutes between cases and knock them out.
CMS requires a post anesthesia evaluation within 48 hrs of leaving the PACU for all inpatients who have received anesthesia; so yes, you do see anesthesia on the wards. You'll also see them there for removal/manipulating epidurals.
