ICU

It's day 10 in the ICU...21 to go. Actually a little less since I do get a few days off. At any rate, it's been hectic but good. Today I was a little annoyed because the patients were divided between myself and the intern who had been on call that day at 4 each (no admits overnight, how lucky!). On friday-sunday there's a 3rd year resident who's the ICU float resident who comes in so the interns can have a day off on the weekend. And for some reason, the 3rd year who's always there said that we would divide the 4 patients that the post call intern presented between myself and the float resident. What BS!!! When I was post call, the float did all my patient notes and I had way more than 4 patients! And I actually stood up for myself and made that point. They made me feel somewhat guilty for doing so but that's her flippin job as the float resident on friday! And what annoyed me too was that the plan seemed to be for me to write my 4 notes, possibly 2 of the other intern's notes (we don't write notes post call), and then do all the admits with the senior in the morning! And this is my short call day. I don't know why this friday was being run differently than last week when I was post call because that float person told me his job that day was to write my notes and the other intern told me that's how things happened without controversy. The only thought I had was that this float person is good friends with the senior who's on. It's odd too because the senior had been so good about keeping things fair and equal so far. Yep, I was a bit pissed and you know how that makes me. And it takes me even longer because I have a 4th year med student interrupting my note writing to ask questions. She's really smart but I suppose now i know what I was like to residents as a med student. Sometimes I just want to say, stop bothering me now and we'll discuss later. The nice thing about have the subintern (as 4th year students are called) is that it's one less presentation I have to make on rounds but I still have to write a good note so it doesn't save me any time cause then I have to read her note and cosign it. Blah...

Only 21 more days...

I want to sleep