It's my first call as a resident. I've always been told that as a junior resident you have backup. You won't be on your own because everyone knows you're basically useless. Yet I have no senior here because this small program doesn't have seniors on off service with you. There are no specialist residents here.
Given how unprepared I am to take on call, I'm surprisingly disappointed by how little everyone is calling on me. Despite me going around to ER, swithboard and the wards today telling everyone that I'm the resident on call, to call me instead of staff, no one has seemed inclined. Instead I got called in for a consult by my staff, and I'm otherwise sitting around and kicking my feet.
What I should be doing is sleeping, since this is home call and I have to go to work tomorrow.
While rushing into the hospital earlier for consult, I went into ER in a white lace dress to see the patient first, then got changed into scrubs in case it turned surgical. As I was going into the ER again, someone behind me muttered 'I told you she's a doctor'. I guess white lace doesn't scream doctor on call.
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