ha, so true baby einstein! I think back to this time last year and how excited I was to start. What a change a year makes! I am glad to be a doctor but I am even more glad to be almost done with intern year!

@babylove, resident mom: my (almost 2yo) daughter the other day was explaining to someone that we were going home to HER apartment - not mommy's or daddy's apartment. Amused, I asked where I lived - and was told "At WORK!" She was quite sure of this. Ouch!

But, now, just a couple month's later, she still likes to make a big deal of how it's her apartment - but at least she now reports that we live here, too. And the other day she very proudly announced that when she is a daddy she will go to work, too. And then went right back to playing her current all time favorite game: stuffed-animal doctor. She gets really upset if anyone tries to do a stuffed-animal exam and leaves out "check refexes!"

On the light now: YES!! This is helping!!

& I second the welcome to the new interns!

So today I started a new rotation. I'm doing what is essentially a transitional year - some surgery, some medicine, etc. This was my first day of peds since forever ago. Inpatient peds. On the day we had a hospital-wide transition to EPIC (the EMR). With the other intern on the team post-call. And the junior resident with afternoon clinic. It was chaos.

I felt like the patient care aspect of our day was severely lacking. All we did was try to figure out the electronic order and admission system! Things got lost. We didn't know where to find labs and radiology studies. At least my senior resident was awesome. And our med students were amazing too.

Here's to hoping that tomorrow is better and I get home before 8pm to put my son to bed... ugh

(sorry, just needed to vent)

Also, my husband is on call tonight

OK, enough whining. Time for some actual wine

Okay, I did just finish so I'm not a resident anymore, but I'm really close. Here's some shocking INSPIRING feedback my totally precocious 8 year old (i.e. very verbal very early, so I figured she'd have early memories galore) on my husband's overnight call the other night:

Mommmy, I hope you never have to work overnight like that.
Me, well, sweetie, not all doctors do....
her: do psychiatrists?
Me, well, usually, only during training.
her: eyes wide, "Did you used to do that????"

I was flabbergasted, really -- with some prompts she remembered my MIL sleeping over a lot... so she had the memories, but they weren't about being neglected or missing me, clearly. :-) ( I suppressed to the urge to say, don't you remember I missed your first birthday when I was just a med student???")

wow, that is reassuring! thanks

Just wanted to thanks to everyone!! For the kind words, the hang in there's, the I understand your misery.....thanks!!!!!

2 more weeks of being an intern and things are looking up! ( as you all said they would...)