Miss Me?
It's been a busy time since I last posted. I finished residency. For good. I worked full-time at a walk-in clinic, which made me realize several things:
1. I can deal with uncertainty
2. Walk-in clinic medicine is not bad medicine by definition. It is what you make it.
3. When you have no idea what is going on, have the person come back in a couple of days. If the problem hasn't resolved, it will likely have declared itself.
4. You really do prescribe the same 5 meds over and over.
5. Improving your flow at a WIC will carry over into other areas.
Most importantly, it made me realize that I would NOT want to do WIC medicine for the rest of my career.
Thankfully, I packed up my family and we headed down to our new town. And I started my new job. For the first time ever... I am THE doc. Staff. The buck stops here. The end of the line. Holy... crap.
After much time had gone by and I had no urge to update here, I wondered if it was time to hang up my blogging shoes. It's been a good 3 years. But I don't know that I have much more to say.
Then again, maybe I do.
I'll continue to ponder this one for the next little while. Thanks for your patience, for those of you still checking in here.
posted by Couz at 8:35 PM
24 Comments:
Thanks for the update. We will be here when you are ready to blog again. It is always interesting and reassuring to know that other people's lives get the same curve balls thrown at them. Just keep swinging! Good luck with your sweet family and new job..
10:49 PM
yes dr couz i missed you! :) i'm glad you're back (well, sort of)
7:29 AM
yep, I missed your updates too....I hope you don't stop blogging altogether....
12:37 PM
Hope you continue, but I understand if you don't. I went private and have enjoyed being able to be more open. I've had a harder time catching up on blogs, so I've noticed a decrease in blogging desire as well. Hoping you continue, though.
3:12 PM
Definitely still checking in, and glad to hear things are going well. :)
7:27 PM
If it's your source in inspiration that you worry will dry up, then remember, you're starting a whole new part of your life! I think you'll find yourself coming back.
11:48 AM
Oh don't go. This is the only blog I regularly read!
7:23 PM
I'd miss you if you left. I check your blog regularly. It's one of my favourites!
5:00 PM
...just when you were getting to the good part?! Don't be a wuss - keep blogging.
8:28 AM
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9:21 PM
I still check! Please keep blogging!
dkflygirl
12:25 PM
Good luck with the new job.
10:33 PM
You can't leave us hanging!
4:12 PM
oh no Dr. Couz you can't leave us! I have really enjoyed your blog over the past few years. Always thought provoking and interesting for me as a nurse. :) Sarah from WB's
4:16 AM
Congrats on the new job Couz.
11:20 AM
Hi, my name is Matteo Cosi, I'm a casualty registred nurse at IRCCS San Matteo Pavia Hospital, Italy.
I'm writing to get some help for a work we are building up: we'd like to improve the ways to deal with the major trauma patients inside the ER shock room.
Getting standard the assistance nurse protocols we'd like to reduce the waiting times at the ER,
and make them reach the CT as soon as possible.
I'd like you to give me informations about your way to deal with the major trauma patients within 15 minutes.
How are you organized with the nurs' work?
How you got a team with predetermined issues?
Above all I'd like to know if the nurse follow standardize protocols, and know this ones.
Thanks.
E-mail: aldeide.t@libero.it
Skype: Teomach
5:32 AM
Hi, my name is Matteo Cosi, I'm a casualty registred nurse at IRCCS San Matteo Pavia Hospital, Italy.
I'm writing to get some help for a work we are building up: we'd like to improve the ways to deal with the major trauma patients inside the ER shock room.
Getting standard the assistance nurse protocols we'd like to reduce the waiting times at the ER,
and make them reach the CT as soon as possible.
I'd like you to give me informations about your way to deal with the major trauma patients within 15 minutes.
How are you organized with the nurs' work?
How you got a team with predetermined issues?
Above all I'd like to know if the nurse follow standardize protocols, and know this ones.
Thanks.
E-mail: aldeide.t@libero.it
Skype: Teomach
5:33 AM
yes the WIC is interesting, and yes i would not want to do it for the rest of my career either!! at my facility we have one WIC md who is dedicated to that area. does not venture out into the other zones. the obvious consensus that most of our staff have is that the md doesn't offer great throughput. picks and chooses what to see and treat. bounce backs are tremendous in number. stops taking patients at early hours. takes breaks....i dont get breaks why do they? its rediculous that the uppers allow this. but alas, who are we to question...
9:50 AM
i think she's gone
:(
5:19 PM
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8:57 AM
Please don't go. For your honesty(if indeed it is), I have great admiration of you, and feel you to be a good soul. As a medstudent I am eager to see how your career shapes.
Please continue writing. pretty please.
12:56 PM
I really missed ur post.... I am glad you are back.....
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5:41 AM
I just came across this blog, and it's very encouraging to know I'm not the only one who feels completely incompetent in rotations. I'm a PA student, and this is my first rotation (ER). Beyond lac repairs and URI diagnoses, I feel like an idiot half the time, and I too hear the snide comments made by the staff about their coworkers. It's a bit depressing, and it's only my 2nd week on the job!! Thanks for the blog.
8:48 PM
are you ever coming back???
10:56 AM
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