A tissue?... anyone?

There's nothing like getting pimped for two straight hours while you're nursing the full onset of a cold.

Today I started my last service in my 3 month block of core surgery. After our usual 7 am lecture, this time by none other than classroom favorite Dr. Frank Kretzer, I got my first real introduction to Ben Taub County General via the Urology clinic. Granted, it wasn't General Surgery or Emergency Center at the Ben Taub, but it was still a good indiction of how different things are from a county hospital perspective, compared to a state of the art computerized facility with automated robots going from place to place.

Everything is done by paper charts. You have to seek and find if you want to know any lab values, or even if the patient had labs. Most of the time you can't even read what's in the charts, or even understand the patient. And none of this helps when you start off the new week and a new team, and a new location with a new cold. I felt it coming on last night and knew what I was in for. I was just still in denial that I could hold it back. Well now I'm on Nyquil and Dayquil and hoping I can just make it through the days. So oh well, I'm hoping tomorrow goes a little smoother since I know more of what to expect, and I'm going to try to get some more rest tonight to help with the cold. I need more sleep than I got last night, that's for sure.....