Hey guys. I'm Siobhan, a first year medical resident. It's my last day of ICU today,
nd I get a nice long day, because I'm on call. So I figured I'd bring you along, not just for today,
but for the whole week. So you can see what it's like transitioning to a new rotation.
Oh and thank you so much for all of you who answered my questions in my last video.
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Just got to the hospital.
It makes a huge difference being able to bring this mug with me and bring some tea.
So a thank you to Strive To Fit, who gave this to me.
Just ran for a code blue.
We call it like a fake code blue. Somebody fainted and then the whole team goes running.
Anyways, gotta go back to rounds, but I've got a little bit of a work out in.
So in the morning we round and see each patient as a team. The afternoon wasn't too busy, so our staff did a teaching session.
Then of course after the day team went home, things started to pick up and get busier. Admitting patients to the ICU and
doing procedures, like inserting central lines when they needed it.
Can't believe I just finished my last ICU call shift in my first year. It's pretty crazy.
We end up doing another block in my second year and another one my third year, so I still get more.
But honestly I loved the experience and so I feel sad to leave, it's such a great team.
Anyway, it was a solid night.
Steady, like five patients that were quite sick. So I'm ready to go to bed, so I'm gonna go call an uber.
So it's 9:30 p.m. now, I've been up for like four hours. I think I'm ready to go back to sleep.
I did manage to get up and go for dinner with my family, and you know... I have gotta say, in residency
it's really easy to feel like you've got so many deadlines, so much work to do, so much studying,
that it's easy to just put off time with family and friends, but it's important. So for me anyway,
I need to set times and actually plan in advance. Otherwise
I'll just
not do it and I would have just kind of lays around the house and sort of felt guilty that I wasn't studying.
Oh, I'm actually trying to figure out a new TV show.
So any suggestions? Let me know in the comments below if you have any favorites. I think today
I'm gonna try out something called iZombie. One of my friends is obsessed with it right now, so I'll see if I like it too.
Tuesday morning, just...
Wow, just caught that during editing. It's like losing a day when you're on call, so it's Wednesday morning.
Heading out of my building and first time
I'm not wearing scrubs in like two months. It's kinda nice, kinda feel like a real person, but I miss them.
Alright, so we just finished our morning in hematology.
I'm just here with my friend Carly, who is another resident and we just started the hematology rotation. That's a
rotation all about blood disorders, so blood diseases..
So this morning saw a consult, someone we thought might have a blood cancer called lymphoma. And
then someone else who has a blood clot. And now it's sort of a rush day, so we're going to our academic half day.
That's basically when we go and get lectures and stuff. So nice to be able to get a ride and
yeah... Just heading there up now.
So right now
I'm using the cue cards a whole bunch when I'm studying.
Something new that I'm trying out is making cue cards during the lecture about key points rather than traditional notes, which honestly
I tend not to go back to as much.
Plus we get all the slides by email, so if I miss something, I can always look it up.
So just got home. It's about 8:30 now.
It's a longer day than usual, because today we happen to have a clinical skills session. So basically
I'm going through like physical exams, in this case the neurology exam. Just makes it feel like a long day.
Now I'm just trying to think what else I have to do. I'm actually on call tomorrow, so I kind of need to get my food ready.
So on a busy week like this, I like to just have some frozen
chicken,
frozen veggies, that I just keep in the freezer. I can just throw them into the pan late at night like this,
put some soy sauce on it and then I've got some great healthy options for when I'm on calls.
I need to read up a little bit on lymphoma, because my staff said that we're doing a teaching session on it tomorrow.
And you know it's kind of nice to be a little
familiar with the topic, because then I think you get more out of a teaching session if you kind of know the basics
or if it's fresh in your mind.
Just walking to the hospital now.
I start my hematology day at 8:30 in the morning, it feels so nice be able to walk to work instead of taking Uber,
cuz I'm at a different hospital now.
I kinda feel like I'm a little bit out of breath while I'm talking to you guys, cuz I'm trying to walk quickly to get
here on time. I left just like three minutes late, so I can catch up, but now I'm slightly out of breath.
I was just thinking how I always ask my patients if they get short of breath walking and now I have to say yes.
All right, 5:30 now. Just
transitioning into internal medicine mode. Got handover about the two teams that I'm gonna be carrying tonight.
And I've got to say, when it comes to sick patients I just feel way more comfortable,
I don't feel as scared now that I've done ICU.
I feel like I can kind of handle whatever sick patients come at me, but
still, you know... You never know what's coming and
for now what's coming is hopefully my call room. I'm gonna go grab a key while I have a chance.
Ah man, I just got to my call room and I was about to change into my scrubs and I realized that I forgot my running
shoes. And if I'm wearing boots with my scrubs, it just looks ridiculous, so I
don't know. I think I might just stay in my regular clothes all night, which sucks, but
yeah... Hopefully things don't get messy tonight.
So it's 9:30 now, made it through the night, just handed over.
So I got rid of all the pagers and was able to tell the different teams about the patients I admitted overnight. And
it was actually, it was a kind of like busy crazy night that
reminded me of ICU. We had two code blue, so we had a cardiac arrest and
had another patient who had an overdose, I had to run upstairs and see. And now
I wish I could say that I was just going to sleep and going home now, but I actually scheduled a research meeting.
So I scheduled a research meeting, they're gonna meet me here at the hospital.
We're going up a couple things and then I've got to go home and
I got to work on research. I've got to prep this video for you guys, which is supposed to go out tomorrow.
So yeah, I don't know... I don't know when I'm gonna sleep,
but I'm hoping I can pull through and get everything done and get to sleep soon.
So thank you so much for watching and joining me this week.
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