Last Words(?)

This may be my last post. I'm thinking this because of the following reasons:

1. What little spare time I have, I should be reading.
2. The quality of my posts have generally sucked for some time now, and I don't anticipate a reversal in that trend, and
3. I think writing about every single notable event that happens to me during intern year/residency is a tiresome exercise for both me and what remaining people visit here, anyway¹.

Instead, I'll just sum up some things that may have happened in the last month-and-a-half:

• I moved.
• I independently made medical decisions.
• I let the nurse make a decision.
• I bonded with a patient.
• I wanted to throw a patient out of the hospital.
  
• I saw someone else's patient 'code.'
• I saw my patient code².
• I was the first doctor to the code and hesitated to go in.
• I was the first doctor to the code and started compressions.
• I got yelled at by an attending physician.
• I got yelled at by an attending physician for someone else's error.
• I carried four pagers at once.
• I wanted to throw each of them into the Schuylkill River.
• One day I didn't have time to eat until 9pm.
• I discovered that dried apricots, mixed nuts, and diet soda make an easy, convenient dinner.
• I didn't get enough sleep.
  
• I did nearly nothing, and my patient loved me.
• I did everything I could, and my patient hated me.
  
• I felt competent.
• I felt like an idiot.
• I took a fellow intern out for a drink because he felt worse about internship than I did.
• I wished someone did the same thing for me a week earlier.
• Someone lived.
• Someone died.

In short, life happened. Same as anywhere else.

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¹ For an accurate depiction of residency life, just watch Scrubs.

² I think 'code' is one of those words that loses its meaning once you say it enough times. Like 'cow' or 'Bracken.'