insanity

Trauma is crazy. I’m not going to tell you how long I spent in the hospital today, but let’s just say that for a day I wasn’t supposed to be on call, I saw an awful lot of the night float people. Prolonged ICU rounds has got to be the definition of torture for surgery residents. That explains why we all tend to have the feeling that there is something deeply wrong with the attendings, who trained as surgeons, and are still surgeons enough to dive comfortably into trauma bellies and chests, b