70% of the population here (according to our sources) is Christian, so we got Thursday off work because it was Ascension Day. Or at least, everyone else did. I was taking longer than I wanted to in going through the June 2009 charts for my research project, so I went into work for a half day to try to finish up the month. I got up at the usual time (read: too early) to try to go to morning report, only to find out that none of the attendings had come in for report. I shrugged it off and decided to dive right into the charts, but since I left them in the on-call room the previous evening, I had to find someone (i.e. a resident) to let me in to get my boxes. Unfortunately, Changi, the guy who had been on call overnight, didn’t have a key to the room. He had had to sleep on a bed in the ward, poor guy. So that left me at work, at 7:40 a.m., with absolutely nothing to do. Yay.
I chatted with Changi and the Team C intern for a while, which turned from slightly awkward to super awkward when the resident asked me whether I was religious. When I answered that our family didn’t really go to church, he replied, “Oh, so you don’t believe in God.” Yeah, they cut to the chase around here.
When Tiny came in to take over for the day at 8:30, she let me into the office, much to my relief. I pored over the charts for 4 ½ hours in blissful solitude, and I FINISHED! MWHA! Much to my dismay, however, about halfway through I realized that although all of the charts for a given day were supposed to be bound together, they actually periodically had different days mixed in, which meant that some of the data I had previously entered was probably wrong, and my tallies for the number of patients seen for each day were DEFINITELY wrong. Great. Fantastic. Thanks, PMH record keepers.
Lunch at Pie City with Julia, Olivia, and Lina. Walked through Main Mall and they bought some souvenirs. Groceries at Spar. Home. Nap for me, while Julia, Olivia, and Lina went to Riverwalk to pick up everything we didn’t get at Main Mall. Basically a fantastic use of my day off.
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