The first day of my new rotation....Orthopeadics. An elective (meaning it was my choice....yeah right!?) 12 weeks of it and so far so good.
It's interesting that the very registrars I fought with to get patients admitted to their service when I was in ED and it was going to create them work, are now so nice to me that I am on their team and will DO their work!
It seems a lot less stressful than ED in that, there is a finite number of patients. There are patients on the ward, in fracture clinic, pre-admission clinic and "on the board" - awaiting emergency surgery. The numbers vary a little day by day, however clinics come to an end and eventually there is no-one there.
In ED, they never stop coming, and neither does the pressure.
So today another new learning curve begins.
I know very little about orthopaedics and bones in general. In fact as in intern I know a little bit about nothing in medicine and surgery in general!
What the hell do they teach us in medical school??!!
Anyway I muddled through the first day with much thanks to the very patient clinic nurses, until a family medical problem took me home early.
A problem that weighs heavily on my heart tonight.
It is sooooo much easier to be a doctor and sort things out for people you don't know and infinitely more difficult and emotionally exhausting to want to fix the problems of family and friends.
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