Only cars in the parking lot

Well, surgery is done and true to form I hardly recorded any of it in my blog. So much for getting third year off to a good start. I do have a good excuse though: Surgery. I did general surgery here at MCG with the GI team. I was one of the first 4 cars in the parking lot every morning (5:00am): (literally, the first 4 cars - me and my 3 buddies also doing general surgery)

I usually didn't leave until 7:00-7:30pm. My first morning there, they gave me 6 patients (supposedly the max was 4) to go visit to learn all I could about them and them be able to present their story a half hour after I started - this is called pre-rounding. Keep in mind this was my first day and I had no idea what I was doing. I was able to at least meet my 6 patients, but when it came time to present them to the chief resident, I had no idea what to report. I'm pretty sure my presentation went something like: "Um, they're cool, no problems." Later in the day both interns (1st year residents, aka bottom of the bottom of the barrel - right above medical students) on our service pulled me aside to tell me that my presentations sucked - I emphatically let them know that I agreed with them, but I also let them know they had unrealistic expectations of me my first day. I'm a firm believer in being thrown into the water and I will learn how to swim, but don't be a punk about telling me how bad I am doing. Needless to say my second day was better and it was all uphill from there.

I did pull a couple weeks where I worked over 90 hours. Those were long.

Anyway, I am now on Radiology. We all refer to it as "radiholiday." I think I like it so much because I love not working. Literally, the doctors come in around 9:30am and as near as I can tell they are gone by 5:00p. And you know they are making decent money. Here is a picture of what me and my buddy Garrett did last Friday before work:

FISHING! Radiology as a potential career, here I come!