I was watching Hell's Kitchen today. I've noticed that whenever there's a reality show in which the contestants have to go through a lot of exhausting, horrible shit in which they work their asses off while simultaneously getting yelled at, I am always reminded of residency.
There really is no reason for that. In fact, after a particularly grueling day on PSYCHIATRY in which we rounded for more than SEVEN HOURS, it was when I finalized my decision on my intended specialty. There is no possible way to round that much on OB/GYN. Every place I have been to is less than an hour of table rounds. Also, my notes are less than a page with H&Ps. I'll take dirty vagina over all-day rounds at any point in my life.
During my OB-GYN rotation we once had table rounds for 2 and a half hours. Discussing 7 patients. And I was post-call. I'm still famous for falling asleep during that one. But walking rounds usually took less than an hour.
WTF, really? Sheesh. On my rotation, they considered "vital signs" to be a waste of time during table rounds. We could usually go through 14-16 patients in about 45 minutes. Walking rounds took a little less than that, unless we had REALLY sick MFM patients.
just got done with SICU where we came in at 6am to preround, xray rounds started at 8a after conferences and we weren't done rounding, re-rounding, and triple rounding until 6p when signout happened. horrible. and no, my other icu rotations were not like this.
GAWD, that's why I hated IM so much. Pre-pre-round, then pre-round, then round, then post-round, then cardiology round, then ID round, then post-post-round, then keep you till 7pm "just in case", then send you home after hours of doing nothing.
I hope you were wearing comfortable shoes. That really sounds hellish. I'd rather stand in the OR all day than round all day, at least in the OR you can lean on the table/patient and there's something to do so it keeps you mildly entertained. On walking rounds it's just walk. stop. talk. walk. stop. talk. repeat.
Hmm, I'm not so sure I'd prefer the OR to this. I mean, at least I didn't have to contort my body and repeatedly be told that I'm holding the retractor wrong for 7 hours. Besides, I had plenty of pimping with which to keep myself occupied during this marathon. But the worst part is standing there waiting for my attending to write her oddly long notes.
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I contemplated leaping from the hospital.
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