Archive for August, 2007
The First Call
We capped with 10 team admissions a little after midnight–so it was a busy admission afternoon/evening and not so much a busy early morning for admissions. I admitted three patients and a fourth went straight to the ICU which counted towards our cap meaning little to no work on our part. The other intern admitted [...]
The First Code
I managed to find myself as the first physician present in a code situation today. Talk about terrifying. The nurses were performing chest compressions and giving bagged breaths for a patient this morning by the time I walked into the room. I simply stood at the foot of the bed with a deer in headlights [...]
The First Admit
I admitted my first patient today. Last month I worked on a consult service–so I never had any of my “own” patients. That all changed today when I admitted a patient with pulmonary hypertension. It was mostly grunt work–filling out orders, doing a rectal, etc. Ya know, the normal intern stuff. We got the patient [...]
