Dear Bono,
Wow, I realized I am not great at writing to you daily. Less than a week and I completely missed more days! Oops! I guess my experiment may not work out.
Yesterday, I got home from work around 7:30pm, found out at 8:30pm my surgery I was supposed to perform at another hospital today was moved from afternoon to the morning, which conflicted with my nine clinic patients I was supposed to see my usual hospital this morning. Of course, I have no secretary to call my patients for me to tell them I had to reschedule, and of course, I don't have online access to the VA system at home, so I went back to work at 8:30pm. I called patients from my arrival back at work at 9 (yes, I live 30 minutes away) until 10:30pm, and arrived home at 11pm. I had to reschedule them to be seen on my down time, or add them to already overpacked schedules. I then woke up in time for work at 7am. And then it was time for surgery! No wait, false alarm... we had to wait for an hour and a half for anesthesia to be ready. But FINALLY, it was time for surgery. And then my attending (boss) did all the case while I did none.
Was it worth it?
No.
Welcome to residency.
Bono, can you even begin to relate? Ever? Any experience? Maybe you were supposed to open for a band back in your youth and then got shoved out of the lineup at the last minute?
Sincerely,
JP
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