First month of GenA, straight out of orientation with 3 months of gap away from anesthesia.
Wow, What a month!! The first week was like a deer in the headlight for me. I gotta figure out what it going on and where is what since everything is pretty new. Boy, was I nervous for being on my own. There's almost no hand holding, it's pretty much sink or swim. I'm glad I have the personality of just letting everything flow and see where all things go and arrange it as it fits then. Otherwise, I would be super duper stressed. The first week, cases weren't that extreme but then they scheduled me a couple of times to the ambulatory center where it's a different system. It's like starting to adjust and gotta re-adjust again.
Throughout the month, I got some days that are difficult in the sense that the cases and patients were more complicated. They had me do craniotomy scheduled, whipple and stroke (on-call). It's been a fast learning curve. I was just happy that on those days, my staff were nice and more than willing to teach and lend a hand.
Got 4 calls for the month. It's not bad at all cuz our calls right now fall under the new intern rule where it can't be more 16hrs of work day. I'm also generally a white cloud and the bad calls would usually consist of being busy early on then when it's bedtime, it's quiet. So generally I get almost a good night sleep with hours. But we all know that we usually are still in the light sleep where we have an ear out for our pager going off.
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