Professional: ER Shift 1...

Well, I finished off genetics and now am doing ER.

Yeah, if I could quit I probably would just to get out of doing this.

You see, I didn't know when I was interviewing that when I did an ER shif there, that I would be seeing EVERYONE; that means pediatric patients, medicine patients, surgical patients, all kinds of patients. In fact, I didn't find that out until after residency started.

Ain't that some shit?

One of the reasons I hate ER is because of the pomp and circumstance that comes with it. I noticed it as soon as I got there. There was an upper level whom, not only 2.5 months ago, had befriended me in the peds lounge and it seemed that we got along swimmingly. But boy did that change once we were in his territory with his bosses that he had to impress.

And that was just the start of the night...things ran as smoothly as could be expected I suppose, but that didn't keep me from rolling my eyes and getting irritated with every snide comment of the attending or having to deal with some of the ER interns. Whew, they're a different breed altogether...except for Chris. He was nice.

If I had done Psych/Child Psych I wouldn't have to deal with this. If I had done Triple Board in Indianapolis, I wouldn't have to deal with this. Granted, they had their own shortcomings, so I guess I'll just live and let live.

Seeing my 1 pediatric patient was fantastic and luckily I got a 25 year old lady who was fun to talk to and interact with. And her husband was gorgeous. Lol, methinks I'm a sucker for redheads and guys was close cropped gray hair. :)

I'm working the 1pm to 1am shift again tonight and I will come better prepared with snackage and drinkage to get me through the day. Here's to a good night 16 more shifts to go...