i found the office my team was in, walked in, introduced myself, and they handed me a patient's chart and told me to go see him. my patient was 5 months old. i gently reminded the team that i had never examined an infant, and that this was my first day, but it was ok, they didn't mind. so i continued to see patients all morning, unobserved, with absolutely no direction. not very productive. but it was fun playing with those kids.
see, the way the peds clerkship works here at UW is that we do 3 weeks of inpatient and 3 weeks of outpatient. i'm starting with the outpatient portion, which has an easier schedule, which is somewhat unfortunate, because this means that when i'm studying for the end-of-rotation-exam, i'll be toiling under the tougher schedule.
the irritating bit is that after our AM clinic, we have a break for lunch, and then we go to a PM clinic, which is different from our AM clinic. and this AM/PM pair changes everyday. AND the clinics can be located at the hospital, at university station, on the west side, or on the east side. AND there is free parking only at the east and westside clinics. you have to pay for parking at UW, and u-station "technically" has no available parking, but that seems to be easily circumnavigated. on top of this, we have required lectures to attend at UW during the week. and if we're on call on friday or saturday, we have to come in saturday or sunday for Newborn Nursery rounds. i'm on call this saturday. this means i have to come in on sun for rounds as well. then i'm on call next friday. which means i have to go in on sat for rounds. basically this amounts to me not having a day off until october 10. UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE.
also, this means that i more or less have to drive everywhere, since i change locations at least once a day, sometimes more (our scheduled lectures can be in the middle of the day, resulting in us leaving an off-site clinic to come into UW and then go back out again). driving everywhere means paying for parking a lot.
see? already it's starting to blow.
but the thing is, taking care of kids is real cool. i really enjoy it. the PM clinic i had today was waay better. we should have been done around 4:30, but we had a particularly hypochondriac mom freaking out and keeping us until after 5:30 today. there was a korean mother in with her daughter though, and the kicker was that her translator was my old korean language teacher at UW. we were both so shocked to see each other. she said hi to me, and i said hello back, but then i realized i didn't attach the proper conjugate ending appropriate for your elders.
GOD I SUCK
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