As usual I rounded on my patients in the morning. I talked to the IDA nurse about Mr. Roboto; he's still catatonic but can now sit up, respond to commands, and say, "I don't want to talk to you" in Spanish. We did hear him say "Andale!" a few times to no one in particular, but we think he could be talking to his schizophrenic voices. When time came to see our "mean" trauma patient, the first thing Jordan asked was, "Is he still naked?" Ryan said yes, and Jordan groaned. Even worse when Ryan said the guy's parents were in the room and apparently the mother is as messed up as she son, trying to draw attention to herself by stating what medical problems she had. Fortunately with his parents there, the guy's groin was covered with a large blanket.
Sarah, our new FP intern, was on call for peds today (catching babies), but when there was downtime she rounded with us. We soon saw she'd be an important asset to the team based on her fluency in Spanish alone; she'd spent a year in Venezuela doing mission work so from what I could tell, she spoke Spanish without an American accent. At the end of the day, I was a bit sad to see my old team go, but look forward to meeting the new team tomorrow.
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