Give Me An On-Call

Since rotating onto this current placement on the first Wednesday in October, I have been rotated only to normal working days. Gone is the previous Rota Master's fickle torture regime of a single night shift followed by a day shift, followed by a night shift madness. Instead, the new Controller of Spreadsheets appears to group on-calls together in a big lump! It all kicks off next week, when I have a week of long days on-calls, followed by a week of nights on-call, followed by weekend of nights, finishing up with a weekend of days on-call! 

I have surprised myself with the realisation that I am wholeheartedly looking forward to receiving the bleep on Monday morning?!? Despite the higher possibility of getting a lunch break, the feasibility of using the bathroom when you need to, and the ability to get a decent amount of sleep at night that comes with elective work, I find that I do get tiresomely fatigued with day after day of Multi Disciplinary Team Meetings, ward rounds, outpatient clinics and admin!

I probably wont't be feeling like this when I'm simultaneously failing to conduct a ward round of new sick patients, run a CEPOD operating list, review a list of ward referrals and attend a trauma call in A&E...I only hope that whoever the SHO is, they know their way around the hospital because I certainly am still spending a lot of my time wandering around completely lost, and it will be nice to have some poor sod who's job it is to navigate for me!

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