I had a bad day (...cue Daniel Powter song....)

So I had kind of a rotten day in the ER today. I guess it's only fair to have one bad day to balance all the great days so far. It was the kind of day that really makes me want to do Internal Medicine....

I worked with the worst, most negative, unprofessional group of nurses I think I've ever met. One of them actually got mad that she (apparently) wasn't finding an open computer, so she wrote a note in crayon that said "Nrsg Only" and stuck in on the computer. Later on I needed to use it, and she promptly had a fit, started swearing to the nurse next to her about me (I'm serious), and then made a 15-minute personal phone call...So I guess she must've been really busy...I just sort of laughed and kept on working, which may or may not have been the right way to go about it. [Side note: this was discussed by the students at our lectures this am, and we've resolved to put a note on said computer stating "Med Stdnts Only" with the "S" backwards...]

Oh well, over and done with! So I was already kind of annoyed about that, and then as I went to see the next patient after that, two nurses each interrupted me twice while I was trying to talk to a patient (this is a relative no-no, especially if the questions are totally unimportant, as these were)...and I'm not meaning that they were interrupting the conversation to talk to me - I mean that they came and physically stood between me and the patient, interrupted me mid-sentence, and were asking the patient totally unimportant questions that should've waited till I was done...Such is the life of a med student....and intern....and resident, I guess!