another code blue to start out the day. it seems like they usually occur in the morning between 6 and 8. kinda like earthquakes how they usually happen at night. pt survived.

1 down, 1 to go

i went in to the hospital at 6am yesterday. i left the hospital today at noon. that, just in case you cant count [or are just in disbelief] is a 30 hour shift. i got to sleep for about 4 hours. how did i end the shift? the best possible way...had to do a rectal exam right before i got to go home. like i always say, theres no better way to end a 30hour shift that to stick your finger in someones...

Code green

i heard "code green" over the PA system and asked the nurse next to me what that is...she laughed and said it means a patient went AWOL. apparently its the code you call if your patient is missing.

an hour later in the residents lounge we were sitting with our interns and one of them got a phone call. after he hung up he said: "that code green was for our patient Mr. X. hes gone, i guess they found him running towards firestone blvd."

Fungi

was sitting in the resident's lounge when two interns walked in.
 one said to the other, "wow, that presentation was pretty good." [this was referring to Tan's presentation he had just given them on an assigned topic.]
when i heard this i said, "thats nice, im gonna tell him you said that" [thinking i was being nice, i know how hard Tan works on his research presentations.]
next thing i know the intern is looking at me laughing saying, "you know what, just for that im going to assign you a presentation. is that ok with you? [turns to my intern who says yeah sure why not because she thought he was joking--he wasnt.]"

know i have to do research on different systemic fungal infections just for opening up my big mouth.

i need to stop talking.

another one of my patient's died today. i swear its not me, they are just really sick!

one that isnt really sick is my 60yo pt who checked himself into the hospital for alcohol withdrawal symptoms. this can get pretty serious if your body is used to alcohol at all time, you can have a seizure and thats not good. Originally, i thought 'wow, good for this guy. he wants to clean up his act.' FALSE. after talking with him, i found out the guy had a stomach flu and was vomiting for 3 days and he couldn't drink because of it. so he started having tremors and felt like crap so he checked himself into the hospital to get IV fluids. we call it a banana bag because it really does look yellow. its normal saline with supplements that most alcoholics dont have beacuse of their poor nutrition. rumor has it that they cost around $1,000 because of all the calculations to mix one up [complete bullshit i think to cost that much...]. so we were forced to check him into the hospital because of his withdrawal symptoms. your tax money hard at work [medicare patient].