I am literally going to be up almost the entire night writing my SOAPs for my three patients tonight. I was at the hospital for 12 hours today seeing patients, getting their diagnostics tests done, and doing their treatments. Now I'm home writing up all their cases for tomorrow. I don't want to go into all it involves, since I'm too busy for that, but just take my word for it that it would be hard reading for anyone but a doctor or veterinarian (all possible causes of their problems and necessary diagnostics tests and treatments for each). It's brutal to have to do this all night when I was grilled by my clinicians all day on the same things, but I guess this is the only way to learn all this complicated medical stuff. All of my patients have huge problems lists and I have to write a work-up for all of them, so I don't plan on going to bed before 2 AM.
Since I have 3 patients in the hospital, I have to finish their morning treatments before I meet my clinicians for rounds at 8 AM tomorrow morning. Since one is in the ICU, I have to go in around 5:45 to be sure I can finish all the treatments on time. Any of you who know me know that I don't do well on little sleep, but I knew that was how this rotation was going to be. One of my classmates was falling asleep in rounds this afternoon because he was up so late.
Next time you feel like your vet bill is too high, just think of me and all my suffering before you complain. :)
-Shirin
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Last night I could not sleep until close to 4 AM when I finally began to doze off. Now, in light of your email, I realize that I have mysteriously been comiserating with my beloved baby, such is the love with a father and his daughter.
This makes your ortho rotation sound good. Ugh. I would die.
It'll get quicker :) When I was a med student it took me like all night to write up 2 admissions... by the time I was finished residency I was seeing up to ~17-18 admissions per night (including notes). It'll become second nature :)
- Stanton
Wowsy! Poor Shirin!! :( I will be sure to shell out the bucks from now on. ;)
Honestly, SOAPing doesn't always take this long because other services don't care of the dog has a magnesium 2 mg/dl too high. Internal medicine wants us to address ANY abnormality and name every problem under the sun that can cause it, what we think it is, and why we don't think it's the other things. Anyway, I hope Stanton is right and that I get quicker at it. At this point, I'm still looking every problem up and reading about it before I can write about it. :( Two hours of sleep is not enough. Going to bed early tonight.
-Shirin
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