Sometimes I make these posts and I wonder who the fuck is reading this shit, and of the people that do read it, how the fuck did they find it.
Anyway, lemme tell you a little about life. Its fucked up.
Lemme tell you a little about life two weeks ago. It was even more fucked up.
In medicine people refer to call schedules like the way you would write a prescription. For example, 1 tab P.O. q6hr = 1 tab by mouth every six hours. Its Latin and stuff. Anyway, people say, "Yeah, I'm q4." which would mean you're on call every 4th day. Example. On call Monday, your next call day would be Thursday.
The most hardcore thing you can legally do in a residency these days is be "q2." That means you would be on call Monday, post call Tuesday (which means all you can do is sleep) and then on call again Wednesday. Or, put differently, you can accumulate 60 our of 72 hours awake and at work.
The point of this is I had 5 calls in 12 days. So, 5 q2 calls AND IT FUCKING SUCKED. So for all you bitches that can't stop bitching about the cost of health care and the greed of doctors I have one question: How many 80 hour weeks have you worked in your life? Ok two questions. How many weeks have you worked over 100 hours and made barely over minimum wage for it while sitting on six figure debt that the interest is running on.
The end.
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Difficult work is often mistaken for valuable work.
Doctor work is valuable, but the 'abuse the residents' tradition is just stupid and probably ends up killing people.
Q2 Call? but then you miss half the good cases? Just remember...right of passage....
Greetings from Lyle's board.
you da man! fo shizzle
can I have an MRI for my knee (meniscus) yet or will you just finally schedule the scope surgery and be done with it already.
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