2nd week in Met

This has been another interesting week. I volunteered to be on-call everyday, which in hindsight might be a mistake. During the day I am seeing patients with Spencer, the other medical student, he is showing me the ropes and is great because he understands my level of knowledge and really goes out of his way to explain things. We go in, interview the patient then present to the physician. Next we all go in together and treat the patient. Afterwards I have an opportunity to “debrief” with the physician, which entails asking any questions or making any comments on how everything preceded. Last night I was on-call for the first time and discovered that my “black cloud” has followed me from Boston because we had a call about once every hour or two. I saw a gambit of patients. I got to put in an IV and monitor various patients (supervised of course!).

Tonight I am on-call again but this time the on-call supervisor is going to triage the patients then call me as if she were them (regardless of the complaint ie: “my kids are being too loud what do I do?”) and I have to respond as if I were the on-call doctor and would have to triage them myself. I have already had my first call and it was funny because she only gave me the information she received which was not much and did not make sense. This patient I decided that they should stay home and not come in and she agreed and had already told the patient the same thing. Did I mention that I love it here?