Okay, i’m back, and we’re back. It’s nice to be back. I like Y---, of course. What a nice guy. It’s just good to be here, ya know? Yeah, what the hell, sure, more time in the damn flow of things. But shit, this is kinda a nice lifestyle lowkey. He’s just here doing his thing. Wait.... The thing O-- said about how twenty-four hour shifts in the nick you have a
Maybe he was onto something.... It’s kinda nice to still be here.... I’m here, and no one else is here, and i can totally see how he might enjoy that. And yeah, i know i’ll be going back and getting some dinner somewhere. Maybe i’ll go eat at [thai place].... Yeah, that sounds really nice. We’ll get some [thai], and then we go right back up to my home, and we go to bed. Simply put.
So yeah, this is kinda fun. We were talking about how
in the newborns to more of an extent than we realize, in a seed on a smaller scale than any of us know....
And Y--- was saying how 'exit procedure' happened to the baby with the tumor because they.... Well, exit procedure is just when you, likeeeeee, when you intubate the baby before it’s even fully out, and that’s kinda crazy to me.
It’s a sign, actually, of the interventionism at its most fucking neuritotic. We want this baby to live so badly that we’re willing to put a tube inside of its throat before it's even out.
damn damn damn. And then when you see it on google images it’s touted as a miracle and shit. Come on now. That’s not a miracle, that is a perversion.
But there was a thought i was having earlier while reading the MOMS paper about whether it’s better to intervene on a myelomeningocele during the time when baby is inside mom or after that time, and they seemed to be pushing us in the direction of 'it's better to do a prenatal operation.' But then it makes the baby more likely to get born preterm, and then it has more need for follow-up... shit, i forgot what it was, but there was something about how there are more operations possibly needed in the future, and at least more medical follow-up needed in the future. And that’s when i start to be like 'oh, so you’re just making someone totally reliant on medicine forever' kinda thing......
Y--- said that in life you either get it right or you learn. And that’s quite wise. Shoutout Y---. This is part of the mindset you need to develop in order to be a functional doctor. You have to be quite ready to turn your Ls into lessons at all times. And that’s just the way it goes.
This feels like study hall or parallel play or something. We’re both here working on our respective stuff. I’m here writing my stream of consciousness per usual, and Y--- is there writing his chats and his orders and his notes and whatever else. And it’s almost six pm. And it’ll now be nearly twelve hours since i got here. And i’m simply having the time of my life.
You know what i’m going to do, actually, is order takeout from [thai place], and that way i’ll bring it home, and i’ll have a takeout container that i can use.
He said that he placed an order and was immediately told it’s wrong, so then he had to come back down here and adjust the order i guess. That’s kinda awesome. It’s so funny that this is just his job. He’s just kinda here.
He said that being in this on-call room by himself reminds him of when he had a studio in med school. That’s a cute thought. Yeah, this is actually pretty much just a studio. Yeah, that’s pretty cute. And it’s a bunkbed setup..... And there are maroon metal details. The ladder is navy-blue metal and so is the frame of the bed, except the sides are birch wood-looking something, and it has stickers on it. The furthest left sticker says
and has a little cutesy spiderman little cartoon thing, or it's more like 3D animation i guess, and then to the right of that is elmo and cookie monster in cartoon form, and then to the right of that is a little cat with his head comically slightly enlarged, and then to the right of THAT—the far right—is a sticker of elmo riding a skateboard. Funny how i never have looked closely at these things at all, just processed them in the background.
I'm sure if i were to somehow ever
do a twenty-four hour shift in this room, i would at some point want to take stock of the entire room and defamiliarize it all. Looking at the little placard on the door and seeing how it’s laminated and says “YELLOW resident TEAM,” and there are two different fonts going on, one of which is nicely classily serifed, and then the word 'resident' is written in what looks like calibri. Yeah, that’s for sure calibri. And there’s clipart of a syringe with a heart on it to the left of the word 'yellow,' clipart of a stethoscope to the right of the word 'yellow,' what looks like a yellow first-aid kit to the left of the word 'resident,' and to the right of the word 'resident' (which is written in black text with a drop-shadow in yellow, seemingly, which is actually a nice and really classy touch, my compliments to the chef) is the medicine logo, the one that looks like a spiral with a snake, seemingly, and then wings at the top. Who the hell designed that logo, and why? And then to the left of the word 'team' is a lab coat clipart, and to the right, a mask clipart.
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