Surgery - the REAL day 1

• 5:30A-5:30P
• Saw 4 of my own patients
• Made my resident think I disappeared (it was a 1st day misunderstanding)
• Found out that the scary attending isn't that scary one-on-one
• Saw two surgeries
• Made the lab techs teach me how to gown & glove again in the OR
• Made my resident laugh because of what I wrote in the chart (laugh because it was funny, not because it was wrong - even though I'm sure it wasn't totally right!)
• Got paged for the 1st time (it was from Student Services - they needed me to sign stuff)
• Heard for the first time - "in your prep for Step 2" & panicked.
• 2 days down, only 70 more to go (yeah - surgery is a 7 day a week thing!)