Tales from the Emergency Department; in which a man who wallows in nostalgia, and secretly wishes he were a Victorian KnifeMan rants about his work and what passes for a life.
He's heard it might be therapeutic...
Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Any resemblence to parties alive or dead is purely coincidental
Monday, May 14, 2007
Secret Pleasures, Number 2
The grudging respect I earned on Saturday morning for my transformation from 'walking corpse' at woken up +1, to 'functional human being' at woken up +5.
Seems like all those nights on call taught me something, after all
I had this idea FY1s got protected sleep..? I guess that's the same as no sleep, depending on which way you look at it. I think I listed it as a guilty pleasure, but no. 1 was being called "doc" by paramedics, police etc
i think it's all shifts and you don't sleep during the shift, so if it's a late or a night you just stay awake. there doesn't seem to be anything more than about 14 hours though so don't really need to sleep.
i think i'll probably just laugh if anyone calls me 'doc'...do you ever get used to it?!
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aha, i hope to be able to do that after a while...though i think as an FY1 you're not supposed to go to sleep at all!
got a question though...what was secret pleasure number 1?
another mystery? you won't even tell us why they call you Dr. Shroom! Pictures please
I had this idea FY1s got protected sleep..? I guess that's the same as no sleep, depending on which way you look at it.
I think I listed it as a guilty pleasure, but no. 1 was being called "doc" by paramedics, police etc
i think it's all shifts and you don't sleep during the shift, so if it's a late or a night you just stay awake. there doesn't seem to be anything more than about 14 hours though so don't really need to sleep.
i think i'll probably just laugh if anyone calls me 'doc'...do you ever get used to it?!
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