As expected, my entries during night shift will be short b/c 1) I'm typing them quickly so that I can get to bed, and 2) by the time I get home I've forgotten half the things that happened during the night. It was another slow night; Dr. P did all the deliveries while Anita and I did H&Ps. There were 2 C-sections, so I went to the 1st one. When the scrub nurse asked me if I got permission to scrub in, I said yes, b/c in our team a student is required to be present in all non-complicated C-sections. When I went in, Dr. C and the attending had not arrived and Dr. D couldn't make the first cut without them, so Dr. D and the scrub nurse began drawing pictures on the plastic portion of the sterile drape covering the patient's abdomen (which read "es un nino"). When Dr. C saw what we did, she was all, "Oh, for the love..." This C section was pretty much like the others. Then Anita went in for C/S #2, and my words about "being required to scrub in" came back to bite me when they were counting equipment b/c the nurse added, "Med student present: check."
We had some downtime from 4-5 a.m. in which everyone had a change to sit down and sleep. Later Anita and I ran into Dr. K in the halls en route to the resident lecture, and we let him know that we missed having him on our team. The good thing about today: we don't have to come in until later!
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