Just returned after an epic trip to Southeast Asia. It was a nice decompressing trip and I am glad to be back. I decide to go hang out with some friends before my first shift back in the ED. My drive home would be one that I would never forgot.
A Classy Affair
A hat has just been passed to me. In the hat are a few 20 dollar bills. I reach in my pocket and throw in a 10. I am just a resident, hopefully that won’t be considered too cheap. You may think I am at a church but I am actually at my weekly conference. This is how money is raised to host recruitment dinners during residency interview season.
Staring a Gift Horse in the Mouth
In this edition of the Physician Grind we explore the temptations that we as physicians face when being offered gifts by pharmaceutical companies or patients. In the end it is about providing unbiased care to our patients but sometimes that's hard when we are offered front row tickets to a ball game or a trip to an exotic island
The Holy Grail
It’s every EM resident’s dream to be part of a big procedure. The rush of a heart pounding, adrenaline filled moment of slamming in a chest tube, criching someone, or being part of the big show, a thoracotomy. The holy grail.
Cracking Skulls Son
I'm on my neurosurgery rotation. Wake up at 3am. Get in at 4am. Round on the patients on the service. Round with the Attending and my senior neurosurgery resident. Go to clinic. See consults. Senior resident is a little off today. He’s being a complete dick about dumb stuff.
Bloody Baptism
It’s the first day on my 4th year elective in the Emergency Department. I had orientation in the morning and just my luck I am scheduled for a night shift. I had no idea that what I was getting myself into. I guess I’ll just jump into the deep end. Sink or swim.