Extra Shift

I got a call just before noon today form the hospital and they needed someone for an extra shift. I decided to jump on it to increase my x mas bonus this year. Shift started off nice and for a change I had only 5 patients. But the 6th one turned out to be a lively one...
A young patient was admitted for a suspected apendicitis, my initial diagnostic plan was to just observe him till the morning, but ended up assisting the surgeon in an acute appendectomy. This was also my first. It was a quick one and everything went as planned.



This was maybe not the best timing since I was planning to use the extra time to plan my presentation for the oncology dept which is supposed to be tomorrow. I have to present a couple of cases and of course I did not find the time to prepare. So I have to pull this together tomorrow before noon. Kinda bad that I was only notified today after I had already planned to take the extra shift. I would have thought that atleast a couple of days would have been appropriate since this is a regular thing at this department. But what the hell I should be able to pull this off somehow.

The upside today is that I was able to get out of the next 2 weeks that were intended for oncology. Instead I picked up Pulmonology next week and GastroEnterology the first week after the break. I was thrilled that this worked out like this. Even though I am slightly fascinated by the whole cancer idea this setup at the oncology clinic is not to good. Its just a never ending bedside round with endless amount of patients and only one specialist. Ontop of that it seems that all the top guys are at a conference in the USA at this time... So I had to call it !!!

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