Good morning everyone!
It's Thursday.
I'm still in the middle of my surgery rotation but today
is actually a snow day.
It doesn't look that bad right now, but it was actually a lot worse earlier.
So the medical school and the non essential hospital staff, which is obviously me, medical
students.
We are not required to go to the hospital today so that's why I'm home.
It's about 11 o'clock in the morning.
So today I'm just gonna be staying home and I thought it might be a really good time for
me to vlog because I'll be home and I'll have all this time.
So today I'm planning on working on my project, it's sorta like a grand round style presentation.
So grand round if you guys don't know is sort of the educational piece of residency, it's
both for residents as well as medical students, so about once a week somebody will present
a case and some related research studies regarding either the treatment, management or the path
of physiology of the disorder or the illness that the patient has and it's supposed to
be educational so all the medical students are being asked to do a similar style presentation
and it will just be for medical students.
So I'm gonna be working on that presentation today at home.
Later in the afternoon, I'm on call tonight so from probably 5:30pm today to tomorrow
morning, I'll be on call.
Being on call on a Friday night, or on a Thursday night is great because you get next day off,
so end up having a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, a three day weekend which is awesome.
Candy is here!
Hi Candy!
Hey guys!
So it is like 4:45pm right now.
I got a decent amount of my project done, pretty much like the whole outline and the
research part is done and I wrote up the case that I'm gonna talk about.
So pretty much, I have to organize the research articles and their findings and put it into
a powerpoint file.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna bring my computer to the hospital just in case there is like some down time
so I can continue to work on the project.
But for now, I'm just gonna get ready to go to the hospital.
I'm gonna pack dinner, cause the hospital cafeteria, I think they close at like 7 or
8.
I don't know if I'm gonna be eating before then, in case it gets really busy.
So I like to bring my own food.
I'm gonna bring one of these and I'm gonna pack some dinner.
So I will see you guys maybe at the hospital.
Hi everyone!
So I'm here at the hospital, on call.
Just went to the emergency room to see a consult.
It was a possible appendicitis and it turned out to be appendicitis.
So the patient is gonna go for an appendectomy.
I just came back to the call room really quickly so I can have dinner before I go.
So I'm here... heating up my dinner and then going to surgery after that.
We'll check back later.
Hey guys just checking in again.
Just got back from the appendectomy.
I'm back in the call room.
I came back and my jello, which was solid before is like liquid now.
So I'm just gonna drink it I guess.
I have some leftover sweet potato fries, an apple that I brought from home.
I think for the rest of the night, if it's quiet, I'm gonna maybe do just a little bit
of work and try to go to sleep.
For students at my institution, we're allowed to go to sleep at 2am and then we usually
get up at around 4:30-5:00am to do, like the list and do pre-rounding and stuff like that.
So we're guaranteed 2 to 3 hours of sleep and that's because it's really dangerous to
drive without sleeping and even though people will say you should get a couple hours of
sleep before driving home, no student ever does that so it's kind of built in to our
program that we go to sleep for at least a couple hours before we go home.
So that's the purpose of that.
So I'm gonna get started on some work and see if there is any consult or see if there
is anybody to be seen in the ED and then head to bed hopefully.
Hey guys!
It is about 6am in the morning.
I'm finally home.
I just got home.
I didn't get to take my mandatory nap today because there were three surgeries back to
back.
The first one was an appendectomy, the second one was a bowel obstruction and the third
one was also a bowel obstruction and we ended up doing an ex-lap , bowel resection and an anastomoses
and all that.
So it ended up being a pretty long case.
I think the last case started at around 1:50am and it ended at like 5:00am and I was so tired
that I actually brought the trauma pager home with me, which I'm not supposed to, so I'm
gonna have to go back later today to give it to the person who's gonna be on call tonight.
I could go back right now but I'm just really tired so I don't think it's a good idea for
me to go back out and drive to the hospital again.
So I'm just gonna do it later today.
I'm really amazed at how focused and with it everyone is at after being up for so long
because during the last case, the attending was asking me: so Jamie do you have any question,
or Jamie, I don't even remember what she said but basically she was asking me and engaging
me and all I can think about was like: I'm so tired, I can't think right now.
I think normally--she was a really great teacher and normally I think would have asked a lot
of questions and just gotten a lot out of it but because I was super tired, I felt like
I was just barely standing there.
But it was really cool to see--I worked with two different surgeons today and it was really
cool to see different styles and different styles of surgeon but also as a teacher so
that was really cool.
Any I'm super tired, if you guys can't tell I'm gonna sleep.
It's still dark out so I think I should be able to sleep without a problem.
And I'm gonna check in with you guys tomorrow.
Hey guys!
So I'm up.
It's like day time.
I slept for about 7 hours.
I went to sleep around 6 and I was up by like noon to 1.
I think closer to 1 probably and now I am getting ready to go the gym and I have to
go the hospital to drop off the pager and then I'm gonna have dinner with my friend
so I'm gonna get ready for that and maybe do a little work in between if I have time.
So I think that's gonna be my day.
I'm gonna close the vlog here.
Thank you guys so much for watching!
Sorry I was just checking in and not really showing you guys much.
It's a little hard in the hospital but hopefully you guys got a good idea of what it's like
to be on call.
Usually it's not a crazy as it was last night.
I usually have a little bit of time to sleep but it's like different every time.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed it and I will see you guys in the next vlog.
Bye!