For the vast majority of this past year our surgery program has been down a resident, an intern to be exact. This left the rest of the remaining interns to absorb those 80 hours every week of work. For the most part, schedule changes were able to make this do-able without too much difficulty. However, when a second intern fires themself in the last month of the year it leaves the rest of us bewildered. Why on earth would you stick out an entire year as an intern only to throw it all away on your own at the very end. It also leaves yet another 80 hours a week needing to be covered. And then don't forget that it is June, meaning all of the chiefs are graduating and are either already checked out or are soon to be so in a week or two. Another 320 hours a week needing coverage. And then two of our prelim residents are moving to other programs and will be leaving us in about a week as well, add another 160 hours needing coverage.
This is going to be so much fun!! *Note sarcasm*
Like all things, we'll get through it. We always do. Somehow the patient's keep filling the ORs whether we're staffed with residents to cover it or not. And if not, well... we'll figure that out too.
Much Love.
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