Hey guys. I'm Siobhan, first year medical resident. Today
I'm going to be telling you about my post call routines and some of the guilty pleasures I have on these days. And
I've got some of my fellow residents to come and tell you what their post call routines are like too.
So I'm actually post call right now. I meant to come home and shoot this video right away,
when everything is sort of fresh in my mind,
but I was so exhausted that I ended up just waking up from a nap and it's 5 p.m. So
anyway, let me give you a sense of what one of these post call days are like. And post cal a means that I get the
day off, because I spent
26 hours working yesterday.
So you work all day all night and then you mercifully get to go home and sleep and have a day to yourself. So typically I
finish at the hospital,
handover the Pager, sort of finish with my
responsibilities, do handover, which means tell about any patient issues that happened overnight and then freedom!
So then
usually this sort of
nauseated tired feeling sets in and I feel a little bit sick to my stomach, so I
go downstairs and I get myself a breakfast sandwich.
I know it's not super good for you, but in those morning like today it tasted so good.
And I munch on that when I'm walking home.
And then when I get home, the first thing I do is go and wash my hands super well
and actually chug a whole bunch of water. So then it's sort of just like a regular
getting ready for bed, like I would any other day. I brush my teeth, have a shower,
get into my pajamas and
kinda scroll through Instagram before I set up my computer on my side table beside the bed.
I turn the brightness on as low as it goes and I kind of
snuggle up into bed and watch some Netflix and fall asleep.
Honestly, I just don't even set alarm and I wake up somewhere between 2:00 and 5:00.
Like I said, today I woke up at 5:00. So it's a really
disorienting time when most of the day's gone by,
but I feel a lot more refreshed. Not perfect, like you still feel a little
like out of sorts, but a lot better than when I first walked in the door.
Okay.
Full disclosure. So it sounds like it's great, you get a full day off and sometimes it is. But the downsides are that...
Well, you've got that kind of
nauseated or I do... I don't know if anyone else does, it's kind of like this hungry
feeling. I think it's from being tired and I always crave chocolate. And so there are these little chewy dark chocolate
things that I thought... I just love them, so
those are my guilty pleasures. And sometimes I eat a shocking amount on post-call days. I haven't had any yet, but I can't guarantee
I'm not going to dip into them later. So I started wondering: what do other people do on their post call days?
You know, they disappears from the hospital. We don't see them.
What do they do? And do they have guilty pleasures too? Am I the only one who wants my chocolate fixation on these days?
So I decided to go and ask my friends in residency. What's your post call routine?
My routine is
going home, making myself something delicious, curling up on the couch, turning on Netflix and
falling asleep before I can get through any show.
Sleep and catching up on whatever life stuff has been neglected. So usually I fill my tummy with
protein and then I watch 2 episodes of Family Guy and I have 6 hours of sleep. All I do is sleep. Shower.
Go home and go to the beach after for the day, since it's been summer so far.
I have to come up with a winter routine, well for now it's like the beach.
Yeah, so what I usually do is I go to sleep first, take a nap, then once I wake up I
eat a bit, then go to the gym. Then when I come back,
I try to study a bit and then just chill for the rest of the night and spent back with my wife.
Yeah, so normally post call I try and get a few hours sleep.
Then I try to do laundry, but usually neglected it at that point.
Then I try to have some physical activities and then I just go right back to sleep, it's a pretty well day. And then the question
I was really interested in: what's your guilty pleasure on your post call day?
Definitely peanut butter and mostly just with a spoon out of the jar.
Going to a buffet, like the Mandarin, post call and just you know... Just
eating a disgusting amount of food and then going back to bed, that's my guilty pleasure.
Probably coming home and like watching some bad TV. Lately it's Grey's Anatomy as if I haven't had enough.
I just laugh at how bad it all is.
It used to be MacDonald's breakfast, but now
I can't stand it anymore, like the hashbrowns and stuff. And now the guilty pleasure is like binge shopping, usually at Costco.
So I gotta watch that. Usually I don't eat a lot of sweets, but post call I eat lots of sweets.
I would say usually like a good
breakfast, like a better breakfast than most days. Perhaps like French toast if it's available.
I'm caffeine dependent, so I eat sometimes, but I honestly drink coffee to help me sleep.
Thank you so much to all my
resident friends who have contributed to this. I'm actually going to go have some chocolate right now, because you've inspired me.
Bye guys.
Thanks for watching.
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