Green Acres

One psychiatry blog I read from time to time used to work in an inpatient psychiatric facility that he nicknamed "Green Acres," but it sounds a little more eccentric than the site of my current rotation.

I've been feeling a tad overwhelmed. It's made worse by the fact that everyone says, "Oh, what an easy rotation you have!" It's true that the hours are good -- roughly 7:45-3 most days of the week. But I feel like I only have a few minutes every day to talk to my patients, which is even less time than I had in the psych ER. Granted, I can see them over time, which is cool, but I still don't feel like I've really gotten to know them. The morning is always just a blur of trying to see patients and assess whatever problems brought them into the hospital, check labs, enter orders into the computer, write notes, write discharge instructions, dictate discharge summaries, and somewhere in there, make sure my med student is having a valuable learning experience. I know, it sounds pretty standard for any inpatient rotation... but I hate the inpatient world. I am so made for outpatient, and that's a year and a half away at least. Meh.