But time has given me my answer and confirmed that I went into a field that excites and humbles me everyday. Today I went to the ED and within the first hour I saw a seizure, a trauma patient, and a VT that needed shocking (contrary to popular media, this doesn't happen very often and it definitely doesn't happen during asystole like most people think!). Other cool thing is that not only did I perform my first nerve block tonight but I did two! Hahahaha, AND one was on the head...I had no idea you could even do that! If only the patient knew that I was reading the textbook on something I didn't know you could do only 15min before I actually did it. No worries readers, it went smooth as can be and I had a doctor watching me.
I'm being absolute medically nerdy. But those who know me are probably used to this and you're still reading this blog anyway...
So, today's funny memorable moment happened when the cardiology fellow was debating with the emergency attending on a patient's symptoms and the attending's initial management of the patient:
Fellow: I don't know if this was really a ventricular tachycardia because blah blah blah, look at this rhythm strip it is showing blah blah blah
Attending: You may be right, but you're also holding the strip upside down
Hehe, I had to step out so he wouldn't see my big ass grin. It made me happy to know that even the folks at the high levels can make little embarrassing mistakes.
(Note: to the fellow's defense, with something like VT it doesn't matter THAAAAT much if the strip is upside down or not. Except his argument was that VTs usually start on a t-wave and was trying to show that it didn't on this strip...which matters if it is upside down...just in case anyone actually wanted to know the details!)
