The last couple nights on pain night float have been complicated by the fact that the new interns have apparently begun taking call. It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was beginning internship, but it’s already been three years.
As I look back at some of the earlier entries in this blog, I see some [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Consultant’
June 20, 2008
Beware, the interns have arrived…
June 18, 2008
How to avoid a consult
This week I’m camping out at the hospital every night, covering the Acute Pain Service (post-surgical pain) and the Chronic Pain Service (all other kinds of complicated pain). We have patients with complex oral regimens, standard intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA), perineural catheters which infuse local anesthetics near a sensory nerve, epidurals, and even a [...]
