Yesterday I broke my own personal record, and was in the hospital working for 13 HOURS!! My team was on-call so I had to spend the evening in A&E ('ER' for the Americans!). We were time-tabled to stay till midnight, but at 10pm after a couple of cases of appendicitis, some jaundice, a road-traffic accident, knee gashes and diarrhoea, our House Officer told us (me & my 3 student peers) that we could leave early! woohooo!
So by the time I got home, had dinner & got into bed it was past midnight.
This morning I then had to drag myself up at the crack of dawn (actually, before the crack of dawn!!) to make it to the 3.5 hour ward-round to present the patients I had examined last night and to follow around the Consultant (BIG POWERFUL BOSS) as he checked up on the progress of all his patients.
11 hours later I have finally made it home!
Thank the Lord I don't have to be in till 9am tomorrow morning!!
I've just washed my hair in the sink with a kettle as my source of hot water (our brand new boiler has died for some reason), and so as I sat at my desk half falling asleep I thought "what better way to spend my time than to blog! But alas what shall I blog about for I have nothing original, creative or interesting to talk about?..."
So I tagged myself from dilexitprior blog...
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Quartet Meme; 4 answers to every question
Four Jobs I've Had in My Life
1. Working as a Ward Assisstant in the hospital (during my high-school years I woked at the local hospital mopping the floors, serving tea, vacuuming....!)
2. Italian to English translator for a company producing websites about summer cottages in Italy
3. Call person, phoning up alumni of my University & asking them to donate money to the University
4. Babysitter
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have
(I dont really watch many movies and I own even less, so I will only answer with..)
1. Father of the Bride used to be my favourite movie when I was in my early teens. I must've seen it about 12 times and could recite it word for word! I havent seen it in a couple of years though...
Four Places I Have Lived
1. Saudi Arabia
2. England
3.
4.
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch
1. Malcolm in the Middle
2. Simpsons (although recent episodes are less funny than the older episodes, and sometimes contain jabs at the Catholic Church, so I've kinda gone off them a tad)
3. Those new EXTREME series (EXTREME makeover, EXTREME house remodelling or whatever it's called). (they are good when your brain hurts and you dont want to do anything for an hour!)
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation
1. Canada (all over)
2. Georgia, America
3. N. Italy
4. Austria
Four Websites I Visit Daily
1. Probably all the blogs on my blog-roll
(I dont really get a lot of time most days to look at anything else, but I also enjoy browing...)
2. Some of the linked news pages & articles from my homepage (mycatholic.com)
3. Catholic Forums
4. BBC
Four Favorite Foods1. Grapes
2. My mum's lasagna
3. Ferrero Roche (sooo goooooood! although I rarely get them!)
4. Spring Rolls
( I could go on!!)
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now
(oh boy, where do I start?!!)
(hehe! just kidding! I love the hospital really....*coughs*!)
1. ANYWHERE SUNNY AND WARM
Four People Whom I Tag Next
tag, you're it
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6 comments:
Antonia,
I would love for you to link to my blog. Please do so. Thank you!
May I link to yours?
That was an enjoyable read! You sure have long hours go girl!
My fave foods are mums lasagna too and grapes, just as well since we own a vineyard, I can only eat them one season of the year though :(
It sounds rather primative with that hair washing lol, hope it gets fixed soon, being new and all!
X
Welcome to the wonderful world of medicine. Ok, so I'm on the other end, not a physician, but as a doctor's child I know all about long hours.
On which note, I mentioned to my dad that I'd found a great blog from a young Catholic studying medicine in England who's all for NFP. He wants to know if you want to move to Canada and take over his NFP-only practice? :-) hahahaha... well, he actually is looking for someone as he's wanting to get out of his family practice...it's hard enough finding a replacement, let alone one who's NFP-only (doesn't prescribe contraceptives, refer for abortions, participate in sterilization procedures, etc...).
moneybags - of couse you can link to my blog!
Carmel - I hope the hot water gets fixed too...a sink & a kettle is no fun! On the bright side, at least our radiators are still warm, the house would be icey cold if they weren't!
Dilexitprior - Every time we moan about the long hours, the doctors keep reminding us that it will only get worse..!
Goodness, I bet your dad is finding it very hard to find an NFP-only GP! Hopefully God will provide soon for him.
May I ask what he's looking to do once he's left general practice..?
We need so many more doctors like that. Today my friend who is getting married was telling me how she is going on the pill before her wedding, simply because she wants to plan her menstral cycle for the wedding date, and because of contraception of course. I was a little lost for words and was trying to think of a Catholic doctor to refer her to, but unfortunately I don't know one around here.
Advising NFP was like asking her to swim accross the ocean :(
He's had a family practice / general practice for over twenty years but he also does anaesthesia part-time (which includes advanced life support and pain control here). He's looking to get out of his practice and spend more time in the operating room doing anaesthesia. This would hopefully give him more flexibility in his scheduling, as well as less paper work, which would free him up a bit to spend more time caring for my grandparents who are getting old and are needing increasing support.
Yeah, it's hard enough finding a replacement physician because of the shortage of doctors, particularly outside urban centers, let alone one who is NFP-only.
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