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It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.

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The sun always rises and every shift must end.

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Do you know that mood during a sleepover when it's really late at night and every stupid thing you say is the funniest thing imaginable

Yeah that's our entire ward tonight except it's really inappropriate and we're really only laughing out of desperation

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“I hope the harvest goes well” is a very innocuous text for me to send my boss but it is made infinitely worse by the context, which is that they are harvesting bone marrow from a child

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Today, I don't even deserve the "my attending yelled at me and I didn't cry" t-shirt.

Because two people yelled at me and I did cry.

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Oh just a message to make you happy ..Sounds fun but.. ( And Im so sorry for other guys from other specialties.. ) Ive been working 15 years as a registrar and been placed almost everywhere,but anesthesiologists always were for me the most mysterious people who held the worlds top secrets probably.. :))) Aye guys you’re so special..! And I must DECLARE you guys are the best LOVERS !

>)Btw I adore your blog !!! <3

I'm-

Uh...

Thanks? I guess?

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A pin and earrings that arrived today 😍

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every time i make a mistake im like theyre going to put me down like a sick dog

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Forever done with this dumb fucking placement

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Anyone else gets a weird tingling sensation in their hands and arms after doing an electric cardioversion? It happens every time and no, I wasn't touching the patient 😅

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Of course, because when else would you get your period if not at work, during a 24hr shift on a Saturday, while having to wear bright white trousers. Of course.

🤢.

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ok medblr, i have a poll:

on an inpatient hospital floor, where everyone wears hospital-issued scrubs (+/- white coats or other jackets), is it reasonable for a male patient to ask for women who enter his room to put on an additional layer to cover them from collar to wrists?

(people who aren't medblr can answer too, especially if this is something that's come up in your place of work. and anyone who wants to elaborate on their choice, feel free to do so in the comments)

(i'll save my opinion until after the poll is closed)

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I keep wanting to write about my Saturday shift, because it was the most traumatising thing I've had to deal with in medicine so far and I keep thinking about it and it keeps haunting me... but I just don't know how and I don't feel like writing the entire day out. It was all about one single patient that underwent an aortic repair surgery after a Stanford A dissection. By the evening I saw hot, bright red, arterial blood pouring like some damn waterfall out of their open chest and all I could think of in that moment was "we have heartbeat! good sign!". The utter chaos in the OR while resuscitating them. The pools of blood everywhere. The ECMO. It was... a nightmare. We brought them back to the ICU, but at what cost...

And then in the morning we ran to another ward to resuscitate a patient who after the initial CPR felt good and talked to us... and then was dead in half an hour because their abdominal aortic aneurysm ruptured. And we tried and the surgeons came but all they wanted was a fucking CT scan instead of running to the OR. The bloody cowards.

I spent Sunday in bed. I teared up multiple times thinking about it. And even thinking about my coworker, because I know how hard it was on her and I wish, I really fucking wish, I could've helped her more, but I'm just a stupid resident who graduated two years ago and... yeah. I came from another shift this morning and I have to say that I felt like dying yesterday. I didn't think I could get through it, but fortunately this one was peaceful and I even helped some patients and my work wasn't completely useless. And it felt good to leave in the morning.

Thankfully I'm still on my neurosurgery placement so I had some time away from my regular job to deal with this shit, but... it's been awful. I do feel it in my bones. I've spent a lot of time in bed this week...

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“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”-Unknown

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Made a mistake and logged into our work system just to see an extremely unwell patient who was admitted to our ICU two hours ago and now it's 11pm and I'm sitting here and trying to put the pieces together from their lab work and a CT scan.

It seems like a fulminant sepsis after an aortic bypass surgery. Very interesting.