Jan 12, 2017
The novelty of becoming an intern has worn off, the fresh sheen of excitement on each shift, the crampy belly pain as I walk into a critical patient’s room, the rush of adrenaline as I try to intervene on a patient slowly or rapidly dying in front of me. Get up, go work, and sleep. And not much more.
“The nurses started chuckling when they saw me, ‘You were just here! Did you even go home?’ With a grim smile, I realized, it felt like I never did.”
Emergency medicine resident Sarab Sodhi, MD at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University writes on the new ACGME work-hour rules, on our sister publication in-House.
http://in-housestaff.org/lather-rinse-repeat-521