Professional: It's Over!!!

The dreadful ER rotation is finally finito!

And as a testament to just how much God hates me, he made it extra prickly on my last day, working the night shift, getting bombarded with dozens of things at one time and never being able to pull any off smoothly.

The ending attending was super nice but I could tell that it's all starting to wear on her. Apparently, they're down about 3 attendings and so that means the remaining 7 are having to work their asses off, especially since they're supposed to be teaching (which they don't do for off service residents) as well as supervising and admistrating.

The environment was so toxic and just the smallest of negative attitudes can fester into a cesspool of unhappiness. Not to mention that our favorite sect of the medical realm known to the common man as "nurses" will passive-aggressive-ize things to death and blow it all out proportion. This, of course, means that often time they are the brunt of things since doctors don't always react on emotion (from patients or colleagues) rather relying on a detached set of logical heuristics. In other words, we stay calm cuz we know that if we don't someone could get hurt of something forgotten.I did befriend quite a few of them, and I even invited one of them out to Intern Agave rounds. Jaime is a skinny little guy who's married but has beautiful blue eyes (I'm a sucker for 'em) and a great personality. He's country, like many of these folks are, but he's different in that he seems to strive to be better than he is. As Data found out in "Star Trek: Nemesis" that's what makes us human and who we are.

Anyway, I'm preparing my report/presentation on my time in the ED and I'm gonna make damn sure that it gets to the appropriate hands. If they choose to ignore it, so be it, but at least they'll know what hell they're putting their residents through.

Well, I start wards tomorrow, so I shall run for now and write more later...