Happy Birthday to Me!

It's my birthday today! I'm now 28. Yikes I'm getting old. My senior resident got me a frappocino at the starbucks in the hospital. And then tonight, mom, aunty debby, uncle chuck, renae, uncle frank, and aunty laura and I had dinner here at the house. It was fun and relaxing. I had some mint chocolate chip ice cream pie, as usual. What can I say, I love the stuff. So now I'm old and tomorrow i get to spend the day at the hospital and then lucky me I get to spend the night too. Being on call isn't too bad, even when we have tons of patients beind admitted all at once. Otay, bed time. sad.

What Fun!

Last night call was pretty easy. Misty has decided that since the 2 call nights we were on together were easy, I'm the only one allowed to take call with her while she's the night float. Hmmmm...Q1 call doesn't sound very appealing. But then again, 4 nights of easy call vs 4 of hard call could be acceptable! Anywho, I need to prepare for my morning report presentation. I have 3 more nights of call on this peds service.

Today is my last day being 27. Tomorrow I'm officially getting old at 28. Sheesh! I'm getting up there!

blech

So today was hectic. Part of reason why I have to rush before leaving for clinic, didactics, or if I'm post call is because rounds take forever! Today the other intern was at clinic which is fine cause my senior saw his patients. But my god, someone randomly assigned almost 75% of the patients to me for some unknown reason. Thankfully the med students saw a bunch of them and wrote notes but I still had to see them and then answer nurse pages about these kids that I had no clue about so I had to first read about them which is reasonable. But then I get a page about an order I didn't write about blood for one kid and so I told the nurse to page the guy who wrote the order. I mean, come on, his pager number is right there. Why is this a difficult concept to grasp? Page the person who wrote the order. Anyway, so it takes forever to round because we have to have teaching points for every patient because we are learning afterall but sometimes I think it's okay to neglect this aspect of rounding in the interest of time and work that needs to be accomplished. I left much later than I should have but thankfully I didn't have a patient at 1 pm in clinic so I could eat lunch. It was almost a blessing that I had clinic so I could get out of there and breathe a little. Then I scared the other intern into thinking she was the only resident for all the kids when I told her I needed to sign out to her because the other intern, my teammate wasn't there. He was arriving in the afternoon after his AM clinic but his pager was off so I couldn't sign out to him. Hopefully tomorrow won't be as hectic but I'm not holding my breath.

All attempts to try and convince my attending that maybe, just maybe, one of my FTT kids may not be FTT failed. She cited the normal height as her evidence while I cited at least 5 different things in support of my claim and yet her 1 was enough to convince the masses. It wasn't worth my time and energy, what little I had at the moment, to fight it. Meanwhile, the kid has had the million dollar workup and all was negative. I read an article tonight that said such testing is useless because most of the time the tests are negative. Meanwhile, we're now on a zebra hunt to find a cause which most likely will never be identified.