Family Medicine: Saturday

On weekends, we have to be ready to round with the attending by 9:00 a.m., so I arrived between 7:00 and 7:30 to see my three patients. CH had an open cholecystectomy yesterday and was doing well when I saw him; he has a "T-tube" put into his liver (as well as a JP tube that I saw often during my surgery rotations) that is draining a lot of bile. He was moved to another room two doors down from JB, another of my patients, so that was convenient for me =) My third patient still has arm pain even though a recent doppler ruled out a DVT; they'll repeat that tomorrow. One of Lauren's patients became respiratory acidotic (pH of 7.21) and the nurses had to see if he had a DNR before intubating him. I don't know what they did in the end. We also had another patient, a school principal, who was supposed to be transferred to another hospital b/c his wife wasn't happy with the care he was receiving here, yet he was still on the floors this morning. Andie and MO weren't here today, so another third year FP took over for them. We were done rounding by noon (YAY!), so I got the afternoon to read.