Out on a Day Pass

We have lift off. I have successfully escaped from my office. Two 100 hour weeks later. 99% of patient phone calls have been addressed. Sweetie and Zed will hold down the fort in my absence. I have not been this burnt out since those summer months of residency when I served back to back June and July on the inpatient service. This was in the bad old days before the resident work hour reform started. Two days off in four weeks was standard. On-call overnight or until 11pm at least every third night followed by a full day of work no matter what. July was made worse by the arrival of newly minted MD's to begin residency training. They would sink or swim in the hospital so I had the added responsibility of loosing as few interns as possible while keeping them from taking any patients with them if they went under. One summer for an entire month I watched Stuart Little on the VCR every single night. My current reading list is book three of the Harry Potter Series, Redwall, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I also have Phyllis Diller's bio and several issues of the New Yorker with me for reading. I never noticed how often you need the letters B and G until now as the keyboard I'm using here in the Atlanta airport is missing these letters. Stay tuned for further adventures...

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