Internal Medicine residency as explained Drag Race GIFs, a thread:

When your patient complains about being made NPO

When you’re asked to put in a central line

When the attending tears apart your assessment and plan in front of the seniors, med students, pharmacists, and nurses

Showing up to cover the COVID floors after two weeks off

When the intensivist and consultants get into a shouting match over patient care

Five hours into ICU rounds and you haven’t discussed half the list

Avoiding touching anything with your dirty hands but you’re super thirsty

When you admit a SNF patient after reviewing their chart and ID picture and then you go in the room to evaluate them

When the cardiologist is mad at you for calling them about a cardiac alert

When you read progress notes that have been copied and pasted with no changes in five days

Residents during grand rounds that are clearly meant for the attendings

When you get your first paycheck after no steady income for four years of med school

When your med student presents the patient perfectly AND gives an out of the box suggestion that the attending loves

When the irate patient thinks you’re making more money by keeping them in the hospital

When you cite studies for your reason for treatment

What it feels like when hospital administration gives you pizza instead of PPE

When the patient’s nurse calls the team’s phone

Posing with your long white coat for the first time

When you make your way to the fifth code blue of the night

How you react to the child that has *suddenly* appeared thirty years later despite having never communicated with the family

Day 1 of residency and you have 10 patients and question if it all was worth it

And finally, internal medicine residents reading this thread