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 a bed and I then promptly “checked out” to the intern on call for the evening. I felt a bit guilty dumping a sick patient on the overnight intern–but that’s what the 80 hour week does for us.

It’ll be my turn on Sunday when I have my first call day/night.

Should be a blast.