The Lousy Father and more

I had some time to play my violin yesterday, and Anita came in to listen for a while. She said I sounded really good and encouraged me not to stop playing. I don't intend to anytime soon =)

This morning we had Arash and Myriah join us in morning report. Elizabeth was on call yesterday so she got to present a case. There was one case that got our attention: a drunk father accidentally backed his truck over his 5 year old son, fracturing his femur. He then chose NOT to take his son to the hospital, instead dropping him off at his ex-wife's place the next morning with no explanation of why their son was screaming in pain. He'd apparently threatened the boy not to tell his mother what really happened, but when the mother took her son to the hospital, the boy told the doctors everything. Good for him. As for that father...some people should not be parents. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near his kids.

In the morning we all had an hour of "Ortho Clinic" during which an orthopedic surgeon taught us how to read cervical x-rays and all the things that can go wrong with the cervical spine. He was a good teacher and I look forward to whatever he's going to teach us next week. Back on the IP floors, I was assigned to check in on a 9 month old girl with pneumonia and atelectasis, and I heard both wheezes and rhonchi. My SOAPnote, however, was a total bust since I didn't really differentiate between the S and O components. Our attending, Dr. W, was on vacation, but the chief residents came to our floor in his place to read our notes and make sure they're all right. I'd never seen the chief residents before, and when one of them read over my note and pointed out my mistakes, I could see how she earned that position. There was an air of authority about her that wasn't present in the interns or even some of the senior residents.

At dinnertime, Delip and I had a lot to chat about regarding Hawaii since he went there for his honeymoon shortly before I got there. Later I was on call with Ann, another intern, a 2nd year resident, and a 3rd year resident who also graduated from our school. At first he was like, "Oh, another TCOMer..." making Ann laugh, and I wondered what the joke was, and then he showed me his badge that read DO. He was really cool though; after letting me see a month-old baby with pyloric stenosis, he let me off for the rest of the evening. Hopefully I can finish my asthma paper now.