Internshit

I almost forgot about this blogsite.  I've been out of circulation for a year, detached from everything except the goings-on inside the hospital.  I was a junior intern, slave to everyone from nurse aides to consultants.  We were viewed as lower than pond scum: junior interns are the lowest in the hospital heirarchy.  But I didn't mind.  You really have to go through shit when you're a junior intern, literally and figuratively.  We do everything.  We diagnose patient's illnesses, manage them, treat them.  But aside from that, we also collect their urine, do manual fecal extraction, get their blood, stick needles in them, collect sputum and other body secretions as samples... Combine all the jobs/tasks of medical technologists, nurse aides, nurses, maintenance crew, and doctors = that's the job description of a junior intern.  As I said, we do everything.  We moan and we curse and we cry over our tasks, but in the end, we realize that it's all worth it.  It's what makes us doctors.  By going through all those things, I can say I'm well prepared for the real task ahead...