The day of least rush

Pre-pre-Ad day.

To understand that term, you must first know what an Ad day is.

 

Ad-day is short for admission day. It is the day of the week when the OPD and Emergency is reserved for us, namely, Unit 4 in medicine. Every unit has it’s own day. Unit 4 has Thursday. So, on Thursdays, any patient who gets admitted is under our care. Profs and Docs from Unit 4 look after him, diagnose him and treat him.

 

On Thursdays, everybody from Unit 4 arrives at 8 – 8:30 am, and prepares everything for the coming day. Patients flow in. By the dozens. Often too fast for 4 interns and 6 PGTs to handle. The day drags on to 10pm, with patients coming and going. Of course, if you have the night that day, you will be let off at 2pm, to come again at 9pm, and spend the night there.

 

In short, everyone at Medical College will tell you, Ad days are stressful days!!!

 

Then as the days pass, patients get diagnosed, get treated, and get better. The major rush for this falls on the Post-Ad day, with a significant part continuing into the the Post-post Ad day, i.e. Saturday. Sunday onwards, the rush is less. A number of patients have been discharged by then, and the remaining getting better…  As we reach the nest week… Mondays, Tuesdays… the workload reduces. Finally, Wednesdays is the lightest. That’s tomorrow! :-)

 

But no smiles for me… My light Wednesday has sort of been killed off, owing to the fact that I have the morning shift of the ER tomorrow. There’s never a dearth of patients in the ER. But, I enjoy the ER immensely, and am seriously considering a future in Trauma Surgery.

 

Let us see what transpires.

Kinjal