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2004-10-23

This rotation is just getting ridiculous.

I just got home at noon from my first night on call. I wasn't even supposed to be on call until next Tuesday, but because the person making up the schedule had screwed up, I was missing one call shift and had to slot another one in before the end of my rotation. I volunteered to go last night instead of during the week of my exams.

So with no toothbrush or any good reading material for my long night, I thought I would just sleep off the night when I wasn't working. The secretary didn't know where the call rooms were, but assured me that the resident would know the call rooms and codes to the doors when I hooked up with him.

Of course, with my fabulous luck, he didn't know. I tried phoning security repeatedly but they never got back to me with the codes to the call room doors.

Then I called around to try to find someone who had already done call at this hospital. No one was home. After leaving messages with several people, someone finally got back to me with a room and code.

I quickly hurried downstairs and found the room. It was already claimed by another med student. Bah! I guess this was understandable because it was 10:30pm by this time.

Someone said that students sometimes slept in the classrooms on one of the floors. As a last resort, I went to check them out. They also had keypads on the doors. Luckily, I found a janitor on the floor who gave me the codes to the doors.

I spent the night sleeping on a stretcher, with only a thin blanket in the frigid classroom. My sleep was also quite fitful, not only because I had a fear that I would roll off the stretcher in the middle of the night, but because every time I looked out the window, I could see the window of my warm, comfy bedroom just one block away.

Trying to locate a call room was the most exciting part of my night. I was called only once for a case of appendicitis.

Then I woke up at 7:30am to prepare for morning rounds. Since there was only two of us doing the rounds on a Saturday, the rounds took four freaking hours! And the resident didn't call me when they started operating on the appendicitis case, even though that was my patient.

After spending 30 frustrating hours at the hospital, I am now tired and cranky and have a weekend full of studying to do. Whee.