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[doctorspork]

leukaraii replied to your post “Tomorrow is my first 28-hour call in the MICU.”

try to sleep, even if just for a little. even as little as 30 minutes makes a huge difference in your functionality after 20+ hours. if you have minions (what i fondly call the students), don't be afraid to delegate some of the easier work load to them (something like jotting down new labs come morning is really useful).

medinmexico reblogged your post and added:

You will go through a phase where you’ll want to...

captainmdphd replied to your post “Tomorrow is my first 28-hour call in the MICU.”

Not sure there's anything you can do to prepare. Go lay down as much as you can. Even if you don't sleep, even if it's only for 5-10 minutes, it helps just to close your eyes and relax. Enjoy your post-call coma and make sure you spend adequate post-call time resting. The impulse is to do stuff. You'll regret that decision later. This is especially true if you'll be doing these q3-4. Rest is key. Just accept you'll be either working or sleeping for the next month.

Thanks, all <3 Got out a whopping 1 hour early. It wasn’t as bad as I expected (although I only had 1 admission). Came home, walked dog, showered, passed out. Set my alarm for mid-afternoon but was woken up early by a VERY loud ice cream truck that parked itself across from my apartment building. Ordered food from my favorite Turkish takeout place and am just gonna chill and maybe deal with some emails today. I get tomorrow off too which is really nice so I can actually run some errands. But yeah, I’m q4 this month and in January, and q3 in June, so I realized I’ll be regularly staying up for 30+ hours for a quarter of my intern year :/

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[jvocab-of-the-day]

Hey on the subject of having a place where everyone can get together and talk you might consider using Line (look up Line app to look into it). It's nice because it's a cellphone and computer app and there are a lot of native Japanese speakers and boards on there. Definitely worth checking out in my opinion.

Oh yeah I know that app! I didn’t know there was a computer app of it though. Good idea thanks :) I’ll list it under suggestions on the list page.

[randommomentsdevida]

medinmexico replied to your post: I want to study in bed… but 1) Studying in bed is...

I try to do this but every once in a while when I am really sleepy whatever I am holding slips and smacks me in the face.

I've done that before!

Actually, last night, I studied off of my bed with my binder on the floor... I think I read one page.... D'oh!

[thebeatenpath]

You awesome people are awesome!

siempremaravilla answered your question: Time to update my music library

Imagine Dragons, Filter, Muse, and especially Vitamin String Quartet :)

jazzman1992 answered your question: Time to update my music library

of Montreal, Los Campesinos!, City and Colour, Grizzly Bear, Juxebox the Ghost, Young the Giant

mmonger answered your question: Time to update my music library

Iron and Wine. Cold War Kids. Fun.(first album is gold fyi). Little Comets. Louis Prima. Gipsy Kings(guitar perfection). i got more but eh..

medinmexico answered your question: Time to update my music library

You might like some Ludovico Einaudi.

exitingempires answered your question: Time to update my music library

the national, andrew bird, st. vincent

  Thanks guys for your suggestions! I do listen to a few of these such as Ludovico Einaudi, Louis Prima, The National and Iron and Wine. I will look into all of these awesome sounding people. Keep suggestions coming if you have any more because seriously my library needs a whole reno. I am going to sleep! maybe

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[wayfaringmd]

In relation to your last post, do you ever question their decisions because of the contradictions or at least call them out on it? Granted, it might be shooting yourself in the foot (I recall one instance where I questioned a doctor during class) but at least you will know, right? Either way, you will either learn why or maybe be right?

Ok well, it depends. If it will seriously affect a patient's treatment, then yes, ask. If it's something piddly that will just cause conflict, keep it to yoself. 

There is a nice, safe way to question an attending about their decision making: you look it up and read extensively on it first. If what you read answers your question, great. If the reading contradicts the attending's decision, then you can say, "Dr. So-and-So, I was reading the other day about blankety-blank, and UpToDate says this. Is there something else that I'm not taking into account? Why did we do such and such this way instead of that?"

You see, this way it makes it look like you are questioning yourself rather than your attending directly. And it gives them a chance to make up a BS answer about why they've always done it this way. And of course it's always good to show your attending you've been reading.

Also, if you do challenge an attending, don't make the mistake of doing it in front of other residents. If you're going to be chewed out, it's best if you don't have an audience. 

[wayfaringmd]

medinmexico replied to your post: Does anyone else get those weird random muscle twitches?

I get those twitches in my eye and hand every so often, and usually it is when I am not getting nearly enough sleep.

That is a very likely cause for me. Night shift is the worst. It may also have a bit to do with the fact that on Saturday I was holding on very tightly to an innertube while being pulled by a boat, and used muscles I haven't thought about using in quite some time.