Time Management

We have had a very busy summer. July was full of vacations and travel. I think I was on 10 different planes if you include all the transfers we did. We went to visit my parents, went to southern California with Spencer's family for some fun at the beach, and I went with some friends to Dallas for a BeautiControl conference.

August has been somewhat different. We've finally had a taste of what "doctor life" will be like. As Spencer previously mentioned, he is in the throws of his first rotation: anesthesia. He is loving it! He even got some positive recognition for a case he worked last Monday from the head of the course. Being at the bottom of the food chain though means some long hours and early mornings. That Monday he went in before 7am and came home after 7pm. Yikes!

I am working hard at my day job and hard on my business. So between the two of us, we are pretty busy. Compound that with a broken alternator and dead car battery and we have entered the lovely new world of better time management. That being said, there have been some changes. I am working harder to get my business up and going which means making calls, doing spas, and helping people get their own businesses up an running. My desire to work the business in combination with a $500 gas bill meant giving up my membership at the WAC. Oh well. Such is life. It's good though because I have more time to be with Spencer, more time to make dinner, and more time to work BeautiControl.

Rotation: Day 1

Today was my first day at the hospital on my RPM rotation. That's Resuscitative and Perioperative Medicine, or in short, anesthesia. I arrived at the hospital nice and early this morning and followed the regular employees into the building. I had no idea where I was going. I eventually found my way to the Anesthesia Department and was told where to change into scrubs. I met up with my other 2 junior medical students and hung out in the anesthesia resident's work room. I was then assigned to a resident who was doing two MAC cases (Monitored Anesthesia Care). Basically this means that we were not going to put our patient to sleep, but rather give them enough pain killers to not notice the invasive procedure they were going to undergo but still be responsive and able to respond to commands. We had no complications today and I learned a lot about anesthesia. Tomorrow I am planning on being in some general anesthesia cases.