Busy, Busy, Busy

So my first day on Medicine gave me a pretty complicated patient, that two and a half weeks later I'm still taking care of. She's what we usually refer to as a "rock". That's someone who comes onto your service and just stays there. Not sick enough to go to a intensive care service, and not well enough to leave. We've been finalizing a lot more of the aspects of her care that were on hold for awhile, so hopefully we're making progress on getting her sent to a more long term facility. My patients keep coming in pretty complicated though. I had a patient who came in with some fatigue and cramps, and it turned out to be Malaria! Then I had a guy come in to have some fluid drained from his belly and it turned out to be from liver cancer.... I guess it's good in that it's giving me some experience with that kind of thing. I just have a way of attracting the heavy stuff I guess. Oh well, Ben Taub hasn't nearly been the nightmare I was expecting and I did end up with a good team afterall and that makes all the difference.