Estoy tratando con la pérdida.

Moving into November means moving onto the next rotation. Had a nice call today to finish out my month on Vascular.  I switch to Night Float for November and therefore know that I should stay up super late tonight and then sleep to 4pm tomorrow.  But I so want to just go to sleep... and then still sleep till 4pm tomorrow!!

Together with our Vascular Chief for this past month. Half way through the month the three of us were given an extra task.  The task to train one of our colleagues returning from medical leave. With one intern out on medical leave and one second year out on paternity leave the entire gen surg residency had been stretched even thinner than usual. So of the usual teams the three of us were deemed the strongest option to be able to handle the undertaking of this task. It's the end of the month now, did we succeed? did we fail? only time will tell.  But we surely did try!

   This is Aditya (Adi). He has been my intern these past two months (ACS for September and Vascular for October). Last year I was his intern. We joke that should I become an intern again next year, then the two of us will never actually finish residency. We'll just keep taking turns being each other's senior.  But really, you see your team members for 14-16 hours a day... every day, all day! It's a huge blessing to enjoy your team members. By the end of two months working with Adi we'd made so many inside jokes we could laugh at just about anything. Yet be serious too when needed.  And there were more than a few times over the past two months when, as Adi puts it, our patients were "discharged to Heaven." 

In honor of my treasures.

 

Much Love.