- Going to lunch with my attending. He pays, of course.
- Going to lunch with my attending in the community. Everyone knows him. This town is less than 5000 people.
- People say things like "hollerin'" "glance yer lil eye."
- I am literally the only single female in this entire hospital. Every nurse is married with kids. Even if they are only 23 years old.
- Teen pregnancies with assorted baby daddies.
- Meth heads. Meth teeth.
- All females have big hair.
- The downtown smells like cow manure. It's ripe and thick in the air and I don't know why no one else coughs and sputters and gags upon stepping outside.
- Gowned patients sitting REALLY close to my sleeping room. I know they don't have underwear on and they're just chilling on the couch outside.
- No one really cares about hand hygiene here. My attending has NEVER washed his hands or even sanitized in clinic. He touches everything--ob/gym lamps, patient's mouths, computers, phone, newborns, counters, papers....
- My attending asked about my marital status, home life, and ex-boyfriends. I don't think that's normally allowed. But this is small town family medicine and I spend literally 16+ hours a day with him.
- I don't drink water past 7pm because otherwise I'll need to get up in the middle of the night and walk down the hallway to pee, while all patients and nurses are just doing their thing.
- I've been to my attending's house twice already now. It's massive and he has a dog. He asked if I was uncomfortable going in and I shrugged and said no. It's kind of uncomfortable.
- My doc has a limited attention span and frequently does things like pick up magazines while I'm talking to him, dart out for coffee, and even run to the hardware store while a lady in labor is 8 cm dilated...
Good:
- They recently opened up a section of the construction so that I no longer have to walk around THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL AND LOBBY AND WAITING ROOM to take a shower.
- I purchased a mirror this morning at Walmart, so now after one week, I can appear presentable to patients.
- Found a bathroom in this hallway to use to brush my teeth in the mornings. It's old and probably gross but I'll take it.
- My sleeping bag is warm at night.
- $6 lunch specials at the Chinese restaurant.
- Getting used to being cooped in a little room.
- I have a stash of snacks in my room so I don't starve. Requirements: don't need to wash it, cut it, cook it, heat it, or otherwise deal with it. Typical lunch: baby carrots, tangerine, peanut butter sandwich.
- There is a gym and I've been alone all three times I've used it this week.
- The gym shower has good water pressure and is clean. I think.
- My attending is easy to talk to.
- There is a water dispenser outside of our rooms now. HALLELUJAH. Do you know how difficult it is to go waterless?
- I got to take a nap this afternoon.
- I finished watching Jane the Virgin because I thought there was a second season available on Netflix, but there isn't. Still, currently obsessed.
- Did a circumcision this morning and a punch biopsy with suture yesterday.
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