WORST 32 HOUR WEEKEND ON CALL!

Well welcome back to the channel everybody and uh happy Saturday. All right let me get into a little bit of light here. Hold on a second. All right so is this good lighting? That might be a little better lighting. So anyways I didn't really talk about what I'm even doing here today but you probably know by the title of my video. So I am on diagnostic call this weekend which means I'm You heard that right. 1 6 16 hour shifts each of reading MRIs, ultrasounds, CTs, x-rays, nuclear medicine studies, whatever comes through the door I have to read. The reason it is so long is because we do these call weekends. I think I do eight of these throughout the whole year and yes they are 32 hours straight. The reason we do them is because if one person does them it increases our vacation a whole bunch. So this is how we get so much vacation in our practice but when you're on these shifts they're pretty brutal and they can be pretty miserable. So I got here today at 6 45 no like 6 40 a.m and it is now 10 30 a.m and I like just caught up which is pretty tough. I figured since you know I'm an interventional radiologist I also do diagnostic stuff as well so I wanted to bring you along for this side of my practice and see what this is all about. Okay so my partner slash boss called me and said hey basically he had a thoracentesis on a patient and since I'm here why don't I just go ahead and do it and that's exactly what I just did because realistically there's no reason I can't just walk over there insert the needle let the text drain the floral fluid send the patient up to the floor rather than having my partner come all the way in to do a procedure that takes like 10 seconds. So always do a favor for your people and uh yeah but anyways it's about noon I haven't eaten anything but I have to get back to the list because it's starting to build up and uh I get a lot of list anxiety which means anytime something pops up on the list I have to read ASAP or I like start getting anxious about reading it and I don't want to get behind and all that stuff so let me get back to work. All right so we caught up and uh now it's time to grab some lunch. All right so if you're sensing a hint of urgency that is because on these days it gets like super busy super quickly and if I get behind I'm basically screwed for the rest of the day then I'll just be sitting here hammering out studies so I'm like constantly running out back and forth like running to the bathroom if I have to pee running to the cafeteria to get some food because I just have to like make sure I stay on top of this list because the hospital doesn't stop sleeping the CT scanners the MRI scanners they don't sleep and uh I gotta keep up it's even harder because I'm trying to vlog this whole weekend but you know what I do it for people because I want people to see what radiology is all about. So as we do every time I'm on a busy shift is I will eat dinner slash not dinner it's lunch a little lunchtime special got my bubbly sparkling water finally caught up I have another CT head about to pop up in two seconds watching it on the watch list and uh time to get to work and I get to leave to go home about 5 p.m today and that's not because my shift is done that's just like what time our department closes and that's what time I can go home and continue to read from home until 11 p.m that's right so after I finish here I still have another five hours left but things are going well it's 12 45 I've read over 100 studies already which is crazy so let's keep this train moving all right so just caught up it's after 5 p.m now it's actually almost 6 p.m which means I can actually head home right now which is pretty awesome if I do say so myself that's one benefit about doing this is I can head home at this time and read the next five hours from home and yes I do have five more hours also let me know if you're digging this uh cinematic mode I don't know I kind of like it it's like portrait mode for video on this new iPhone it's dope but anyways I just read that was well literally just read probably I think like 170 180 studies the first 12 hours I still have five more hours of work which is insane the volume that's happening today as you notice I'm like rushing through talking because every time I vlog it's like taking away time from being at home and I'm trying to get back home so that I don't miss out and like get behind again so head home start my computer log in from home work from home go from there so I had to come back to the hospital it's now 10 30 at night by the way let's just say it's been quite a bit of a disaster to say the least I've been trying to uh fix my home computer it was like moving so slow and eventually I got so behind by like 10 cts plus basically had to come back into the hospital so here I am reading from here because we're having some network issues or who the hell knows what but I have about 30 more minutes here and then I get to go home and uh do it all over again tomorrow all right so it's officially 11 o'clock on the dot I am dead tired and I'm gonna shower wake up and do this all over again for another 16 hour shift all right so let's talk for a second a because I got some down lighting here let me see if I can switch this up what a disaster last night was so I actually went home started reading from home at about whatever it was 5 or 6 p.m. every study I pulled up would not load so I'd pull up a ct scan pull up the mri and it would take like 10 minutes to load and I just see my list just piling up and I'm not reading anything and as you can imagine my anxiety started going so I called my boss he read a few while I was trying to figure out what was going on and eventually we just came back to the hospital because I was getting so behind that I needed to read the studies so that's what happened so I went to bed at about 11 45 last night went home took a shower when I got home and I just got back to the hospital this morning at 6 45 it is now 8 30 I just got caught up from all the overnight stuff and I'm gonna be here all day today which sucks big time so usually on Sundays I can read all from home which means every now and then I can go hang out with Indriana take a little break go on my balcony relax enjoy the absolutely beautiful weather today but since my stupid home system is working so slowly and no it can come out this weekend I'm basically screwed I have to spend 16 hours today in a dark hole in the basement instead of at home that's one of the biggest benefits from working from home is you can actually just hang out with your wife have dinner have breakfast have lunch have a snack here and there instead of being by yourself in the hospital with no one else around as you can see so I'm not gonna complain this is just the way it goes sometimes you know what can you do but I'm here finally caught up had a few emergencies this morning and it's pretty funny to see how different the studies are and the indications for studies are here compared to what I'm used to in North Carolina so I'm getting a lot of these like random indications for studies that I'm just not used to for one I have never seen an x-ray where a person caught a stingray and the stingray barb stabbed them in the hand and then to get an x-ray so indication for the x-ray was stabbed by a stingray which I never thought I'd see and then you also see a whole bunch of like hockey injuries which I'm also not used to like people getting into fight on the hockey rink never used to seeing that it's kind of funny but well not the fighting but seeing all these different things is kind of funny being in a new place in the northeast near the water it's kind of crazy oh and I had a big boat accident yesterday that was like the big trauma crazy so anyways I'm gonna get back to work and keep you posted how today goes and you'll see me kind of fade off after this coffee wears off check in later okay things have changed heading back home now thanks to Androna and I'll tell you why in a second well that was a complete and utter fail oh that sounds good cheers I have to run up and get dinner from the wife look who brought me dinner I saw you you saw me I did what'd you make for dinner chicken burgers sweet potatoes brussels sprouts best wife ever I guess how about this for a score who has the best wife ever real talk though I feel like I'm back in like residency where if you remember in one of those videos from way back when it's actually one of the videos that got me like over a million views or something but if you remember that video let me turn the light on but if you remember that video Androna came to give me lunch no wait dinner while I was on call and I are back at UNC and she just did the same thing so I feel like I'm in residency again but I guess I get paid better now so it hurts a little less to be here so late but it still sucks don't get me wrong all right guys so I'm going to go ahead and end the video here because for one I'm super tired for two pretty much only have a few more hours left and then I'm done so there's nothing too exciting going on here but just ate my dinner now slowly reading the last straggler studies that are coming in and uh that'll be it for me as you can see I'm getting tired but that's okay I have to be here first thing in the morning at about 6 45 a.m to uh be on CT and ultrasound again tomorrow so that's cool then Tuesday I get to work from home hopefully my computer will be fixed because like I said I should be at home this whole time which makes this weekend hurt a little less but since my computer is not working and all this stuff is happening I have to be at the hospital till 11 p.m tonight so it kind of sucks but next time if I bring you along for the ride for the next weekend off hopefully I'll be at home hopefully it'll be more fun because I get to hang out with Androna and you know break out the day a little bit but on that note I'll leave you all here I'll see you all on the next video make sure you smash that subscribe button follow me and I'll see you all on that I almost poked my eye out on that next video bye