Last call

Not that kind of last call, but the kind that means no more overnight call for the rest of intern year! Saturday was the last 30 hour call I will ever have to take as an intern. More importantly, it’ll be the last ward month I’ll ever have to do. However, my last call turned out to be on Saturday and during a trauma rotation. This meant we would have all of the following plus some I can’t remember:

• young surfer who breaks his neck, paralyzed
• 2 dudes shot in a car, one lives, one dies
• young man stabbed 27 times and then run over twice, dies 6 hrs later
• drunk guy with an alcohol level of 0.47% breaks his jaw falling out of a cab
• 16 year-old kid, drunk btw, gets his foot practically torn off by a car, keeps his foot
• 8 year-old kid gets hit by a car, goes home the same day
• bunch of other ppl who get hit by cars
• ~5 other people needing their appendix or gallbladders out or toes amputated

I’m definitely looking forward to anesthesia/critical care residency with a lot less of the BS.