April

You’ve started another month.  This time you’ll be the senior resident of a general medicine team at the veteran’s administration hospital.

On the plus side, the work load overall tends to be somewhat less with more time to study and teach, parking is available on the days you’re on-call and post-call, you can enter all your orders in the computer, your students can actually write the notes while you just tag addendums, and you have less physical ground to cover as your patients are more centrally located.

The bad includes all the typical VA crap: substandard quality of equipment, laboratory, radiology, and nursing; tons of beaurocratic nonsense; and a vaguely disconcerting smell.  Also, you’re on overnight call every 4.

So far your students seem to be very hard working and competent, your intern the same and your attending quite reasonable.  The weather has gotten quite a bit warmer so it’s actually fun to be riding your moped into work.

You think this will be a good month.