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Me, after taking a peek at the Emergency Department locator from AAU to see what kind of a day it's going to be.
Me when the F2 is looking for me on the ward to do a CbD.
Me waiting for the lift in the lobby
Me when I have to dress properly because I'm meeting the execs
Me when the SHO tells me they've started antibiotics for a UTI because the patient is confused.
"Dr Lee, can you just have a quick look at this ECG for me?"
Me finding the pulmonary embolism on the CTPA and showing this to the juniors
Me asking the specialist if they're coming to see the patient or not.
Me pleased the glycerin suppositories has worked, watched by the nurse who has to clean up
Me waiting for the night F1 to load up the blood results to look at, when he keeps clicking the wrong box
Me wondering who ordered all the Allevyn dressings
Me trying to go home but the reg still wants to present me a case
Me trying to figure out what vascular wrote in the notes with the SHO
Me going to an outlying ward in a faraway part of the hospital to see a patient
Me checking out the CT1's poster at a conference.
Me ruining the sterile field of someone trying to put in a central line (sorry)
Me finally getting on the tube and going home
Me trying to choose a lunch option in the canteen before clinic
Me signing a study leave request from the registrar to go on an ultrasound course
Me meeting with the consultant surgeon
Me hanging out after work with the consultant surgeon
Me grabbing a quick coffee with the team mid ward round
Me arriving on intensive care, bare below the elbow ready but hoping to sneak in my watch
Me asking why the ward ophthalmoscope is still f**king broken
Me pretending it's fine that they only have xxxl scrub pants on the burns unit
Me muttering to the team "That new surgical gadget costs 80 grand you know"
Me trying to work out one of those big intensive care observation charts
Me writing in the notes because everyone has gone to teaching
Me kneeling down to get a really good look at that diabetic foot ulcer
Me trying to leave the ward after rounds on Friday but I haven't countersigned the DNACPR and TEP forms yet
My registrar's expression at the specialist she's having an argument with when I'm like "Yep, she's 100% correct"
Me and the team when we're told they've found a locum night registrar for the weekend
Me realising at 9:30 on a Friday night that there is in fact no locum night registrar and I'll have to just do nights
My reg when she finds out she's not doing nights but I am
Me taking the call from the neurosurgeon saying they will take the patient and there is a bed right now
Me from the other site via video conference when we're on black alert
Me getting my new id badge photo
Me checking the expiry date of the IV fluids we're about to hang
Me looking at the chest x-ray before going to see the patient on the post take ward round
Me feeling the patient's pulse whilst actually counting their respiratory rate because the professor of medicine is right behind me
Me retelling the "biggest poo I've ever seen, I mean not THE biggest but the widest definitely" story to the team
Me with a grateful elderly patient who insisted I was a fantastic doctor but whom I do not recall and I'm trying to pretend I remember her case vividly
Me bringing the entire team as backup to argue with the interventional radiologist
Me pretending I know what the machines in the eye clinic do when I'm down there
Me still with 14 patients to see but it's pushing noon and I'm eyeing the lunch
Me pointing out to the juniors that the smell on the ward is not pseudomonas, it is in fact fish Friday lunch
Me having words with my colleagues who promised to look after the office Swiss Cheese plant whilst I'm away but haven't.
Me being very unconvinced by the consultants gastroenterologist's latest piece of endoscopic kit
Me wondering who ordered 15,000 old versions of the admissions booklet (hint: it's the dude hiding his face)
Me checking my phone because I'm expecting a call from @DrOliverWarren about a patientbut actually it's just Candy Crush reminding me I haven't played today
Me leaving AAU having handed over, the sun is shining, and it's the weekend
Me 20 minutes later
Me trying to do the ward round having pulled my back cycling at the weekend
Me trying to let the charge nurse know where to send patients when there are patients waiting in the corridors and in ambulances
Me with the consultant orthopaedic surgeon when called to a C.diff root cause analysis and the patient's been on cipro for 15 days
Me when the ward sister tells me some juicy gossip about the CT2 at the mess party
Me choosing a new transfer bag for critical care patients
Me getting annoyed with being asked to prescribe TED Stockings AND Enoxaparin
Me having a laugh wth the A&E nurses when it's full HAZMAT PPE training day
Me when the orthopaedic registrar tries to explain the difference between a dynamic hip screw and a gamma nail.
Me trying to be a good geriatrician and inspecting the patient's footwear before discharge after a fall
Me telling the charge nurse "I know you know this already but Beatrice here is going to need a 1:1 special"
Me on the post take round saying "Is that it? Anyone else to see? Ok I'm going for a coffee."
Me looking at poop on the ward ceiling thinking "how the f*£k did it get up there?"
