Shed-yule

Having a normal schedule in surgery is impossible. A look at this week....

Monday - no work (holiday)
Tuesday - 8:15am - 8:00pm (was supposed to be until 5pm, but we had to admit a pt).
Wednesday - 8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday - nothing....yes, nothing. All of my preceptor's surgeries are at a hospital that I don't have privileges at, so I literally CAN'T go!
Friday - 7:30am - ?????

I'm very surprised to realize that this rotation is almost halfway over already...it flew by a lot faster than I thought it would.

I have already emailed my next preceptor and, of course, he hasn't responded....this seems to be the status quo.

The resident who is also training under my preceptor is only here for one more week after this one, and thankfully so, because he is starting to get under my skin. I can't quite put my finger on why I dislike him so much, but I think it has to do with a mix of his nerdiness, cockiness and habit of touching people on the shoulder awkwardly, like he had to practice humanism and compassion in school or something. Or maybe its because when there was an abscess to be drained yesterday, he got to do the incision because he is the resident, (even though I'm confident I would have done no worse.....)

Bitter?

Jen