Facing Tomorrow
This morning my phone sent me a reminder for tomorrow, “Begin residency, year 1.” As if I really needed to be reminded. J All summer long, well no, actually since I began my last year of medical school, July 1 st 2016 has loomed over me. The day my life goes from happy easy go lucky I just graduated to bottom of the totem pole, I’m a worm and I crawl. Also the day I am sure all the nurses and upper level residence dread because they have to train a whole new set of ‘green’ interns that don’t even know how to turn on the computers. Plus, even though I have had an entire 4 years of medical training, I’m pretty sure I know absolutely nothing. But tomorrow, Dr. Janie Ogle must put on a long white coat, get sign out from the night team, pre-round, round and write all the notes for her patients (not to mention put in all the orders). All summer I have had dreams about this day and residency in general. Some good dreams, ...