October 30, 2009

• When a plan comes together

  I am surprised at how much fun it is to have med students around, more confused than I am, making me feel like I’m a genius, or at least that I’m a doctor. Hey, after five months I know things! I know the abbreviations people use! I know what’s probably serious and what’s probably not! I know when to call a rapid response! I

  I try and sit down and teach the med student when i can, even if its only for 5 minutes. I remember being a med student. I remember how awesome it was when the interns and residents helped me out like that, and it definetly influenced my decision to pick internal as a field. So I’m trying to be a good intern and help them feel not so lost. I’m actually starting to figure out what I’m doing and getting comfortable. It’s probably some of each.

  My one complaint would be that is is kind of hard to make friends in the program. Mostly because there is no communal downtime. Everyone is on a different rotation, in a different part of the hospital or even a different hospital, and we never actually have a chance to get to know each other. In med school you have classes, you have lunch, you have extracurricular activities.

  Not to mention there isn’t a lot of “not at work” time that people have in common and can make plans. My day off might not be your day off, my early night is probably your on-call night, you’re on days and I’m on nights… so even if I wanted to make plans with someone, it’s almost impossible. But bit by bit the five minute conversations add up. I just have to try harder to motivate people to go out, I suppose

  Outside of medicine, I will be performing stand up comedy again in the next couple weeks at a relatively well know LA comedy club. Anyone in the area should swing by and check it out
  
  

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