One Third Done

We hit our 4 month mark today. It feels like I've been doing this job for a year. And if you calculate it, and of course we're duty hour compliant, but it turns out roughly to be 1440 hours that we've worked up to now in R2 year alone. An average 40hr a week job will work 1920 hours in a year. By the end of this month we'll have put in enough hours to bill for a year's labor, but sadly only have made $8.30 an hour. It's funny how the ACGME is all up in arms about us being sleep deprived and overworked, but never once filed complaints about us being underpaid.

That grievance being said, it's been a pretty smooth 4 months to date. Those still curious as to whether or not I'm still the "nice guy" who started this year, I would say yes. There have been times that I've wanted to tell someone they were being idiotic or yell at them for mismanaging a patient, but I'm sure I've been on the other side of mismanagement multiple times throughout my short career so far, and will be many times again in the future (hopefully only regarding non-neurosurgical issues). Everyone's only trying to do their job the best they can. But don't worry, the day I meet a doctor who shouldn't be a doctor because it's dangerous for patients, or are just blatantly negligent and irresponsible, I'll lay into them like there's no tomorrow.

One third done, 40 overnight calls completed, 73 overnight calls to go.