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# Arrive in the morning
Check all CT Reports and pending investigations up at Radiology
Check Results of All patients - dating back to admission
See patients alone and make detailed notes
Finish rounding with one reg
Round with another reg
Check all CT Reports and pending investigations up at Radiology
Check Results of All patients - dating back to admission
See patients alone and make detailed notes
Finish rounding with one reg
Round with another reg
Do ward work from both regs . Not bloods because we have plebs. If they can take the blood . If they can’t, have to do it myself anyway.
Ward Work : LPs , ascetic taps , pleural taps , BMATs , collect urine stool sample . Put up NG tubes , put in catheters. Change drips/ insert
Ward Work : LPs , ascetic taps , pleural taps , BMATs , collect urine stool sample . Put up NG tubes , put in catheters. Change drips/ insert
Bookings .
Echo lab (between 10:00& 12:00)
Ultrasounds (not after 13:00 because the clerk disappears )
CTPAs
Urgent Scans - may or may not go well depending on the mood of the radiologists
Ok scans booked but porters are nowhere to be seen , push patients up yourself
Echo lab (between 10:00& 12:00)
Ultrasounds (not after 13:00 because the clerk disappears )
CTPAs
Urgent Scans - may or may not go well depending on the mood of the radiologists
Ok scans booked but porters are nowhere to be seen , push patients up yourself
Discharges : TTOs must go before 12 or 11 depending on the mood of the person taking it up . Include follow up date
Full discharge summaries NB! Include every single bar code inside the file and all relevant results .
Have you ever dcd >5 patients in a day? FUN
Full discharge summaries NB! Include every single bar code inside the file and all relevant results .
Have you ever dcd >5 patients in a day? FUN
On top of that on some days you have to do all of that and go help out in the corona wards .
Sometimes you have to do all of that and be on mini intake which means you admit patients in the admissions ward until 4pm
Sometimes you have to do all of that and be on mini intake which means you admit patients in the admissions ward until 4pm
Sometimes you have to do all of that and help in the short stay ward and until 4pm
I nearly forgot consults ! Making consults to other disciplines when you patients have patients with multiple problems .
Then getting screamed at because no one wants to talk to an intern. But nobody wants to make their own consults .
Then getting screamed at because no one wants to talk to an intern. But nobody wants to make their own consults .
I’m tired and it’s only been 13 days 
Everything is urgent but nothing happens urgently
Everything is urgent but nothing happens urgently
