This morning was the end of my first week of “Green Nights,” a week straight of 13-hour night shifts where I had to admitted patients into the hospital without the supervision of an attending. It was pretty interesting starting off my second year of residency with this because it helped highlight the growth that has occurred since the start of intern year. Did I feel grossly inept and inadequate at time, hell yes. Did I sometimes impress myself with the things I now know and feel comfortable managing on my own, also yes. It was also cool to work with some of my co-residents who are smarter than I am and learn from them. There was a group of 6 of us, 5 of us freshly minted 2nd years basically managing 60%(?) of the hospital. While I felt super behind my peers having done 1/2 the number of medicine wards blocks (and adult medicine in general) as them at this point, overall I felt ok with my performance and I definitely learned a lot.
I go back to the same thing in 1 week, and I’m kinda looking forward to another shot and trying to do better the second time around. Things I can work on are definitely being more efficient. I often found my self scrambling at the end to tie up things before sign-out, in part because I would spend so much time overthinking things through the night (often not meaningfully so), so I need to be quick with my schemas so that I can spend less time doing logistics and administrative stuff, and more time thinking which is the fun part.
After our team brunch to celebrate the end of our watch I also went home to see my new niece, Max(ine) who was born on Thursday during this stretch of nights, so unfortunately I wasn’t able to around the day she was born and I couldn’t wait to see her. So I hopped on a train home, sleep deprived, caught a couple, though minimal z’s and met the cutie. She was worth the mission and I am so happy for my sister and brother-in-law, and their beautiful baby girl. I’m very excited to be an uncle.
nANIMOv 