Already, I feel the emptiness where my soul used to be...

DAY 5 of internship

I realize that other people were right when they said maintaining a quality blog during intern year was impractical. I woke up at 5am today to get to the hospital by 6am, and stayed until after 7pm. By the time I got home, bathed, ate, briefly read up on what I needed to know yesterday...it's time to go to sleep.

This is what's happened so far: a whole lot of learnin', a whole lot of poorly written orders, a whole lot of pages about said orders, and above all, patient care.

Actually above all writing g-damn progress notes and h&p's and discharge summaries. I spend most of my day actually WRITING about my day. Odd.

Ok, so in the future I'm going to try daily mobile device posts. We'll see how that goes.

Intern Year: And So It Begins

Intern year, the first and most grueling year of residency, begins this week. The past week we've been preparing for this with electronic medical record training, ACLS certification (my mannequin survived the mock "mega code," so I must be on the right track), and other orientation activities. I'll try to keep the blog updated regularly.