top 3 gross conditions treated in clinic yesterday
3. ringworm
2. head lice
1. SCABIES!
grossness from stanford.edu
all in one half-day clinic! seriously, i’m itching right now just thinking about these things.
the good news is that despite the ickiness factor, i actually did have a great afternoon seeing patients yesterday. i feel like i really connected with several teenagers, and admittedly there is something satisfying about treating the above conditions, because they are easy to diagnose and you get to feel like a hero with a 30-second prescription.
and don’t worry, i wore gloves.
hours
apparently with my current schedule there simply are not enough hours for me to do everything i want to do without completely killing myself. this is frustrating, but what can i do about it? specifically, yesterday i finished clinic at 6:45 and got home at 7:15 pm (which wouldn’t be so bad, but i have to be at work well before 6 and i am on call again today!). at the point, running seemed like it would be more self-destructive than healthy. and that hurts! i read people’s blogs about hardcore training schedules and remember how wonderful it felt just last month when i was able to run before work. i completely have the desire (and for once i’m not injured!) but i do not have the time. it is temporary, but it still makes me a little sad.
call #5/8 today
at least after this one i’ll be over the hump.
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11.11.08
run: NONE
reading: almost out of spite, i have stopped attempting to do NICU stuff outside of the NICU. sorry, but when i can’t even fit in a run, i don’t feel like i can spare any of the few hours i have left to read about the babies i take care of all day. i guess i will just learn by doing. maybe if there’s some down time on call tonight . . .
cooking: survival mode = amy’s burritos, baked tortilla chips, and bell pepper slices. with lots of spice green salsa. hey, it works.
4 Comments
Oh my! I can handle ring worm…we see it ALL THE TIME! Lice makes me itch. In fact, on of my patients had it and we didn’t know until I showed up the next morning and she was on contact precautions for it! SCABIES…ahhhh…for some reason that freaks me out!
I love Amy’s burritos, I say that’s a perfectly awesome dinner.
Ringworm makes me nautious. The idea of any worm really. That’s pretty gross.
We should definitely try and meet up for a run sometime. The tobacco trail would be great, I need some new places to run. I tried running around chapel hill during my lunch but it is so crazy there during the week.
claire: i am equally freaked out!
toni jo: yes anon is right — it’s not a worm but a FUNGUS! still disgusting, though. but i always tell the kids not to worry that they have worms, because i know that always freaks them out!
cindy: yes, sometimes residency feels like one long stretch of ‘survival mode’! but at least there are ups and downs to it.
jess: somewhat, yes. although we spend a lot of time STANDING, and that is not my favorite position to be in.
anon: yep 🙂 thank god it’s NOT an actual worm!
d10: yay! we should do it. next month i have almost all weekends off, so let’s plan on it then! i ran in chapel hill (from east chapel hill to carrboro, up franklin street) at around noon last weekend and there was a football game going on . . . it was a little crazy