last days

Well, today was my last day in my residency clinic. It was a fun day! The medical assistants decorated my desk by TPing it and putting balloons saying "We Will Miss you". They also had jelly bellys all over the desk with a note saying that my penguin had an accident...it's a pooping penguin that poops jelly bellys. And then they hid my stuff around the clinic. It was fun trying to figure out who helped decorate by looking for my stuff at their desks. Then they really got me when they tried to convince me that I had an add on patient to my schedule. A patient with chest pain. Nadia wasn't doing a very good job so I wasn't believing her. Then as I was starting to see my last patient of the day, I get a knock on the door and the clinic nurse, Leslie, tells me that there was a walk in patient with chest pain that was feeling bad, sweaty, short of breath, and showed me an EKG. It looked okay except for a bad lead and when I asked about it she said she didn't know because someone else did the EKG. She wanted to know if she should just send her to the hospital and so I said yes. Then she asked that I see her real quick. I don't know why I just didn't ask why the attending wasn't seeing her but I said okay. So I excused myself from the room to check on the patient and found a person laying on the exam table with a blanket over her head. Then Nadia pulls the blanket off the sheet and everyone yells "gotcha!" It was pretty great! I was laughing pretty hard...then I jumped onto Nadia. Apparently I dropped my pager since later on I got a note to my electronic desktop saying, "missing something? Check behind the big map". So yet another scavenger hunt...I eventually found my prize: my pager was hidden in the refrigerator in a specimen bag. I'm really going to miss these people that I've worked with the past 3 years. The office is so young and fun. I can only hope to have as much fun at my new job. Tomorrow is the party at clinic where we get roasted by the office staff...after today, who knows what they have up their sleeves for tomorrow.

Graduation is on saturday and I'm excited but also sad to be leaving my second family. Time didn't always go by as fast as I would want but it's so crazy to think back to the day that I first started residency 3 years ago. Has that much time really passed? I've loved almost every minute of it!