In's and Out's.....

I find that there is a lot of running around to be had inside a major metropolitan hospital, especially one that typically treats about 750,000 patients a year. In one door, out another, over and again. At what point does it become a blur, just spinning around and around in the revolving door of life? This first week in clinics has gone by very fast, definitely like a blur. I wish that I was on this service longer than the two weeks that I am. I'm really enjoying my team and they're very helpful in transitioning over to clinics. The veterans are also really cool patients, I really enjoy working with them, and also joking around with their unique senses of humor. Today we kind of had some down time. We discharged several of our patients so I was kind of free to do things on my leisure. So I walked in on a varicose vein oblation, and also helped some of my other classmates with an abcess drainage who were on a different service. I'm trying not to let the "medical" aspects of the patients overwhelm me and just concentrate on the simple things that I'm supposed to be doing and learning. These surgical patients are dealing with problems above and beyond what I'm supposed to be doing, and hence learning and realizing that has definitely helped a little. I can worry about that kind of stuff a few more years down the road, and just keep concentrating on the basics for now. I think I'm finally getting the hang of navigating the "Titanic" size hallways of the VA, since apparently the main hallway is longer than the Titanic as some have said. It's not so bad once you get used to it. I have some time off this weekend as well. I don't have to go in at all tomorrow, and just for morning rounds on Sunday which should take at most an hour and a half, the rest of the time I can just relax, have some fun, and do some reading etc. I'm sure I'll take advantage of it. :-)