I didn’t leave the hospital today until almost three o’clock, trying to figure everybody out and make sure that everything was ordered, discharging patients (inherited 18 patients today, discharged 8. Not too bad!). I then slept and slept and slept and if my stomach hadn’t awoken me unhappy about its prolonged fast, I might have slept until morning.

I have realized, again, how much I truly despise the attending on the team. I haven’t worked with him since I was a junior resident, but at that time, he told me (in front of a patient and his family) that I was an incompetent, lazy physician, who didn’t know how to take a history and couldn’t do a physical exam. Haven’t felt the love since then. He hasn’t changed. He chewed my interns and I out for admitting 2 patients, for not getting all of the details of the history on another (even after reviewing the chart 5 times, I still don’t know why such-and-such was done, so getting more details is impossible!) and so forth. He’s a big time researcher, and brings a lot of grants and money to the department, but I wish that he would stop doing inpatient rounds. He obviously hates it, and the rest of us don’t benefit either.

My social workers and case manager are bringing me pumpkin bread tomorrow, because I’m being such a good sport about covering all of the teams. So there are bright spots. 🙂

And now back to bed.