Of note: this is a delayed entry.
On my second to last CCU call, as per usual, the post-call team had a lot of things they needed followed up on for their new patients, including several groin checks for patients who were going to get cath'd. As you well know, I lump all my groin checks into either 10pm or midnight rounds. One little problem; one of the patients they signed out for me to groin check, WASN'T ACTUALLY SCHEDULED TO GET A CATH. So when I did my evening rounds to do all the groin checks, I go check on this elderly lady, and guess WHAT - nothing on the right side of her groin; that's odd. NOTHING ON THE LEFT SIDE EITHER. WTF?!? Does she have some kind of magical groin? Where is she hiding her cath site??? The weirdest part, in retrospect, is that she didn't seem phased by any of this; like it was normal that I was asking to inspect her groin for "the cath site", although she must have known that she didn't have a groin-based procedure that day....wtf?!? While I confusedly look from one groin side to the other, she asks, "Here, is this what you're looking for?" and shows me the PICC line in her arm. Uh... no. But it's very nice. Once again, thanks for the shitty sign-out, post-call team!
Have you ever been in that position, where the post call team just takes a shit on you? They go, oh hey, we're post call- can we take a dump on you? Because we haven't slept in 30 hours and we don't care about ANYTHING anymore. Here's a list of a bunch of things we forgot to do, didn't have time for, many things for you to follow up on, and some problems that we gave up on trying to solve. Best of luck...
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