IM Sub-I: Sleepy Day

I couldn't believe how sleepy I was this morning, and I wasn't even awake all night like Greg was. After getting to the hospital, I found that my psych patient had checked out of the hospital AMA earlier this morning. According to the nurse, he woke up "suddenly alert," realized where he was, and decided to leave. Hmm, whatever. I'm sure the team won't complain about losing a patient. Later I found out we'd lost another patient; Mrs. X passed away early this morning. "That seems to be the only way you leave this team, you die or you leave AMA," Dr. C said half-jokingly, since most of our patients have major illnesses and keep our census quite full. Hopefully my gallbladder cancer lady and my duodenal mass lady can go home today; there's not much more we can do for them. Zack lamented the fact that two of the patients I've seen have been at the hospital for more than 3 weeks, and dictating their reports will be a long and hectic journey.

In Galveston, UTMB cancelled all its classes tomorrow because of a hurricane threat, and as such, third and fourth year students don't have to go to work. One of the third years brought it up to his attending and asked if the same rule applied to them even though they were in Austin (where it's nice and sunny). I could see where this was going, of course, and obviously so did the attending. He said that he would comply with whatever UTMB said, but personally he didn't think it was necessary to give the Austin third years a day off when they could be learning and helping their teams instead. In the end, I later got a page saying that in accordance to UTMB policy, all third years don't have to come back to work until Wednesday morning. *sigh* Lucky bastards. I still haven't had a single day off since I've been here, and I've been waking up between 5 and 6 every morning to see my patients. I can't remember the last time I got a good night's sleep. Still, I wouldn't be too surprised if An shows up at work tomorrow anyway. She's the perfect med student, after all.

Today Liza and I both spotted Annie in the hospital; I guess that means she's doing a rotation here? Hmm, I'll have to ask the next time I see her.