Random thoughts for random people
1. Longest week ever. Seriously. I had heard tales and legends about the attending that I worked with, but since the first day had gone well and I had managed to keep her on task and we were done by 4:30, I thought that it was all exaggeration.

Oh silly mortal!

Hours of rounding. HOURS of telling and retelling families of what’s going on. None of my opinions mattered. She kept changing her mind as to what was going on. One minute she was harassing the primary teams about consulting us without a properly formulated question; the next, she was condescendingly putting me in my place for “refusing” a consult. I’ve never been so openly snarky before, because I was so tired and frustrated of the endless circles. And did I mention tired?

It also confirmed why specialists SHOULD NOT EVER try to do anything besides their specialty. Hello contributors to the rising cost of health care! Of course, I’m the one who getting the lectures from radiology as why a particular test wasn’t warranted; I knew that perfectly well, thank you, I just couldn’t convince my attending to listen to me. Ugh.

I get a new attending tomorrow, one who I’ve worked with before and adore.

2. I hate non-accidental trauma. Number 1 reason why I decided not to do peds. Heartbreaking.

3. I miss my friends who recently graduated. Some of them are still around for fellowships, but it’s not the same. One who moved accidentally called me on Thursday and I was so excited thinking she was in town. But she wasn’t. So instead I entertained myself looking at pictures from Neurobowl:
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