Saturday, July 02, 2011

Jumping Into The Deep End

Today is Dan's first day of actually working. His first rotation is General Surgery for three months. This week he is working nights (6pm-6am) in trauma. His very first weekend as a resident and he's working trauma during the 4th of July!

I'm confident in his abilities as a doctor, but he doesn't really have any experience with the computer systems, this new hospital and all the staff in it. Yikes! I hope he does well.

2 comments:

Dan's mom said...

I'll bet Dan picked up some info on all the systems while he was doing his away rotation - he tries his hardest to be prepared for new things. Everybody knows who the new interns are, so they know to check on them.
There was a new intern on evening rounds with Dr. Rawlins at Deaconess on wednesday - he said it was a real surprise when someone adressed him as "Dr." for the first time. I told my son would be having that same experience on Friday. Get a really good book or fun project to work on these next few nights - it will help to stay busy while you get used to the away time in the evenings.

Nurse Graham said...

Hey, happy anniversary. I hope Dan doesn't sleep the whole day away.