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.
Umm, other than intern hazing, why would a patient with pulmonary hypertension need a rectal exam?
Anemia with a hx of bleeding from below.