Hey guys. I'm Siobhan, a first year medical resident.
It's 4:45 p.m. right now.
I just finished working the whole day on the infectious diseases service, so from 8 a.m.
until now. And now I've just changed hospitals and just got here.
And I'm starting to meet up with the night team, so we'll be covering
the teams overnight. So all the patients on the ward and we'll be admitting new patients who come into hospital.
So before we get started, I'm just going to have to grab a pair of scrubs, so come on with me.
This is the scrub machine,
basically...
You just put your card in,
put in the size
and you wait.
The machine will then tell you which door it is, so this is 5. So you open the door and then you'll see one of these.
You've got your clean pair of scrubs. Another pair that I need to return, so basically you have this other machine right beside it, it's also a ScrubEx.
You just swipe your card,
it recognizes who you are
and then all you have to do is open this. It has an area for top that I put the top in. And you have the bottom that you put the bottoms in and you just close it up.
And it'll give me a credit back on my account, so I can get more scrubs out.
Okay, so next step is getting my call room key and then getting to my room, so that I can change.
So I just changed, it's just coming up on five o'clock now, so I've got to rush to get to handover,
but I will show you the call room later.
All right, so it's
11:45 now and one consult turned into two.
I actually still haven't been back to my call room yet, so I haven't had a chance to show it to you.
Instead, now I've taken a moment just to go to the resident room and I'm gonna have my dinner,
very late, so...
I'm really happy, because my mum came and brought me a bunch of food the other day.
So I get to have homemade food, I just warmed it up.
This is something called kofta curry, so it's basically meatball curry and it's got sweet potato in it.
Gotta head back to the emergency department.
I've got to follow up on a bit of blood work and then I think that there's another consult
that's on its way that I'm gonna have to do.
So you know, take this zen moment and just feel like a little bit of relaxation and then go back down to it.
So it's 3:45 in the morning and I'm heading back to the call rooms for the first time tonight,
which gives you a sense of how busy it's been.
So two consults turned into three consults and lots of chest pain, so chest pain and shortness of breath
was the name of the game
tonight. And so I think I've got these patients sorted out.
And now I'm heading in to get a little bit of sleep.
Here's the call room.
So, standard room. Got my bed, got a lamp and
computer, but my stuff is already here from earlier.
But before I head to sleep, I just want to share this week's featured question.
Which is: ''What do I actually carry around with me in my bag?'' And so, let me show you.
Okay, so here is my bag that I carry around all the time. I've got the three pagers that are lined up,
that hang off of me.
Here and this zipper here, normally
I keep my cell phone, but I'm filming with it right now, but normally I keep it in there, so it's easily accessible.
And then inside, actually I have a lot of stuff in here.
I have my charger of course for my phone, very important.
And then I keep like a bunch of little hand books and sort of a cheat sheets.
Oh, it's kind of hard to do this with one hand. So this is an ACLS guideline, so it tells you what to do
when someone's heart stops and what would you do to try to resuscitate them. So we get trained in the ACLS algorithm.
So I got these handouts, so I keep those with me.
We also have sort of like a little cheat sheet about the different
dosing for patients who are very, very sick. Usually ones who are going to the ICU
or if they're having arrhythmia,
if they're put on a ventilator, so very useful. And especially when patients are so sick, personally I like to have that feeling of security.
So my Tylenol, just in case I wasn't feeling well or developed a headache or something. And
I got my pocket medicine, I think I've showed this to you guys before.
It's such an awesome resource and you can look up all sorts of things, like how to treat or
like here... breast cancer. So it will go through what to do in the middle of the night,
or actually any time for your treating. This is a whole cancer area.
Yeah, it's a great book. Anyway, I really like it, so I carry this one around. It's a nice resource.
What else have I got in here?
I always carry a book around just to make notes, just a blank book. Notes about what I want to study or things
I've been learning. This I'm not gonna pull this out, but these are my
patient
lists. So it's a list of the different patients in the hospital that I'm looking after, but of course confidentiality,
I'll leave those in there. Got a million pens, just in case.
Well let's dig a little bit further in here. Gum, critical, especially in the middle of the night.
My hand sanitizer, so there's lots of hand sanitizer in the hospital, but here's a little bit of extra, just in case.
That's actually a lot of stuff and I carry that around with me.
Sometimes I think my neck actually gets a little bit tired to be honest.
Okay, I realize that wasn't the most elegant way of showing what's in my bag,
with one hand and sort of everything sprawled out all over the bed, but it's almost 4:00 in the morning,
so hopefully you guys will understand.
Anyway, now I'm gonna go to sleep. Maybe with some luck I won't get paged or have to do another consult before the morning.
Yeah, so goodnight.
6 a.m. Got paged and now I'm heading down to the emergency department again for another consult.
Honestly, this is the time of the night that I dread the most, because you're so close to almost being done and then you're
roped into one more.
I'm sure it's fine once I just get down there, but right now
I'm just feeling like hungry, kind of nauseated and just want to go to sleep.
One eternity later.
Just heading out now
and I remember that someone had a question about whether we have showers here in the call rooms and the answer is: we do.
And here you go, you can check it out. We've got a padlock and the shower is right there.
So just heading home now. It's a bit chilly, so I actually have my hood up for the first time this year and
basically... I just wanted to say that at this moment after such a long day
I'm just feeling so grateful that I've had an
awesome team with me. So in the middle the night you can be like laughing and joking about things in the consult room. And
the other part is being able to bounce ideas off them. If there's someone in the ward
and I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing or find out someone else's impression or thoughts,
I've got a bunch of people I can text, call, just show up downstairs in the emergency department and people are willing to talk, so
you don't feel alone. I'm so grateful for that.
Anyway, so thank you so much for joining me. I hope you subscribe if you haven't already and I've got some really fun
Christmas themed videos coming up in the next couple of weeks.
So I'm excited to share that with you guys.
Comment if you guys have questions that you want me to feature next time and for now, I will chat with you guys later.