Bouncy Haired Girl was visiting this weekend, and guess what? I managed to get her kitted up for two little projects out of Cross Stitch Crazy and she started stitching! *insert evil laugh* Sooner or later I’m gonna get you.

I had a nice conversation with a colleague today. She’s German too, but I don’t know her apart from work. I like her, she has a dry humour that cracks me up.

I was walking home in the sunshine (it’s spring, finally, and I’m starting to believe the snow is done with till winter) with my ipod as usual, and met her. She was waiting for her husband who’s currently working in medicine. During my internship, I was truly miserable when I had to do medicine. It was the only clinic where I really felt the division of “you interns over there” and “us regular docs over here”. They had this thing going on where all attendings would go home early on Fridays, shortly after lunch.

Meaning there’s literally one attending who has their hands full with emergency patients, and a bunch of interns and residents, when they have any. All the people who actually know their stuff and have some experience go home.

Not to mention how much it sucks to be left there on a Friday afternoon with tons of work to do, knowing that if they’d stay, everyone could go home a bit early, but because they have to rush out after lunch, you’ll be there till seven. With no one to ask in case anything goes wrong, and things on ICU’s have a tendency to do just that.

It seriously sucks big time, to be sitting there thinking “PLEASE no one try to die now, because I don’t have much of a clue.” Not because the interns/residents are bad at their job, but because they’re supposed to have supervision and aren’t ready to handle all these cases.

Anyway, German Colleague will do her rotation there soon and asked me if it really was as awful as it sounded, and I kinda had to say, yeah, it was. She’s scared, which made me feel a bit weird - I still thought that I was only scared because I didn’t have a clue, but it seems I’m really not the only one.

When her husband was sitting there with work coming out of his ears, the attending bounced in and announced, “Anything more to do? I’m going golfing now!” I mean, come ooooon, how much more cliché can you get?

Anyway, long story short, it was good to see that it wasn’t just me who was scared of all that crap. I always thought of it as a personal weakness, and it was freeing to realise that it wasn’t, it’s really them who are nasty.

Also, German Colleague thinks I always seem calm and as though I have everything under control and know my stuff. Might be she’s certifiably insane and I have to take back everything I just said ;)

Yes, I’ve been stitching, pics will come later this week. 

 

 

 

 

 

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