In case you ever have to do a rotation in surgery - this is how you prepare. You need to plan ahead and start around noon the day before to make sure you can get through it all.
1) Confirm the date
2) Panic that surgery starts tomorrow
3) Go grocery shopping
4) Chat on msn about how best to roast a chicken
5) Clean out the fridge
6) Put the chicken in the oven
7) Chat on msn about how rude it is to stick a beer can up a chicken's butt
8) Read websites about residency programs
9) Find your surgery textbooks
10) Read your horoscope
11) Chat on msn about how funny the horoscopes at theonion.com are
12) Create a new word document named 'residency personal statement'
13) Stare at the computer screen
14) Pray the statement will write itself
15) Chat on msn about how ridiculous the process is for getting into residency
16) Check on the chicken
17) Peel some carrots and parsnips
18) Locate all snack food available for lunches
19) Locate pager
20) Panic that you can't find your pager
21) Try really hard to remember when last you used it...then search your office again
22) Find pager
23) Make sure pager has batteries
24) Reactivate pager
25) Panic that you dont' remember how to reactivate pager
26) Make note to ask someone in the morning
27) Cook veggies and marvel at the smell coming from the kitchen
28) Eat fabulous roast chicken dinner
29) Watch Brother Bear on Disney
30) Chat on msn about how great Disney is
31) Watch cbc special on Hockey
32) Wander aimlessly around your apartment
33) Make enough meals to last two days in case you are on call
34) Chat on msn about how rude it is that you don't find out ahead of time whether you are on call
35) Unpack from weekend away
36) Put out the garbage
37) Tidy kitchen and wash dishes
38) Make more food just in case
39) Pack a bag of clothes in case you are on call
40) Scrounge around office to find palm pilot, ID badge, drug guide, antibiotic guide, and scutsheets for patient info
41) Find white coat and ensure it is not totally wrinkled
42) Put nail clippers beside the sink to remind yourself to cut your nails when you get out of the shower in the morning
43) Find crocs
44) Find other crocs in case you don't feel like that colour in the morning
45) Pray that your attending will be nice
46) Chat on msn about how OR caps screw up your hair
47) Pack medical paraphenalia and books into another bag
48) Freak out that surgery starts in less than 12 hours
49) Find textbooks again
50) Write exceedingly long blog to avoid openning textbook and realizing you are doomed.....
Lots of love
Pamela
Currently reading: Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment
Currently listening to: my heart palpitations
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