First Day as a Doctor: Medical Resident Vlog (26-hour call shift in hospital!!) 

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Actually I’m from “hi I’m Siobhan, a fourth year medical resident.”

I hope I can say this one day :)

She’s now a fourth year medical resident 😊😊

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Hi Lucero! wow thank you so much!!

Me too!!

Me too

Same!!!!!

That’s what I’m doing now too :)

Hi Faith! I'm also glad you found the channel - thanks for saying hi!

Faith Platisha omg where r u now ?? i’m a freshman in hs and i wanna be either an obstetrician or a neonatal nurse

What type of doctor is this beautiful doc

@@ViolinMD what type of doctor are you ma'aam

@@nimconoora6963 she is a rheumatologist

haha yes! The first week I said "hi I'm Dr. Deshauer" a lot more... I think I was trying to get used to the sound of it! But now I've started saying "hi I'm Siobhan, the resident doctor"... what have you been doing?? P.S. thrilled that you stopped by my channel, I really love watching yours 🙌

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Same

I follow you both!

Hi Jessica! mmm good point... and you can also page doctors at home during a disaster (they work outside the hospital... sometimes I wish they didn't when I'm at home hahaha 😂)

But dont they need to use a phone to page them & then they'll have to use the phone to call whomever paged them back? So how would that factor into networks/phones not working properly if they use them to page/answer pages anyway 🤔

@@seamuffin I meant like the alternative to pagers on the go would just be mobile phones! Which would be far too risky in case of network issues.

Hi

haha thanks Baron!!

Hospitals, often multistory and concrete, as well as filled with motors and noisy electronics, make it difficult to set up communication systems that are reliable.As Violin points out elsewhere, pagers penetrate deep inside buildings where cell phones fail. There are practical reasons for that. Pager systems got their channels decades earlier, so they have lower frequencies that penetrate better. They are also more powerful. One pager channel can cover thousands of users, so they can run much higher power, typically many hundreds of watts. A typical cell phone system needs to reuse spectrum every few miles, so it runs 30 watts or less. As a result, pagers are still necessary for must-get-through messaging when a cell phone might fail. Also, it doesn't take much of an emergency to swamp a cellular system since almost everyone today carries one. Paging is more robust and most people don't carry one. Her pager seems to offer little or no text content. Some allow for a brief message much like phone messaging. The real heroes of hospital communication are the telephone operators who must know where everyone is all the time. ----- I can't go into it in detail here, but doctors and nurses should be skeptical of the moves afoot to bring more technology to bear. More tech is not necessarily good tech. The nasty term for it is metrics. It is the horrors of "Taylorism" (aka "scientific management") in long ago Ford factories brought to medicine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management Here is what drives it: "Scientific management requires a high level of managerial control over employee work practices and entails a higher ratio of managerial workers to laborers than previous management methods. Such detail-oriented management may cause friction between workers and managers." Hospital administrators are making decisions about these systems and doing so in ways that are intended let them monitor staff and demand more productivity irrespective of actual conditions. Yes, they think you're being lazy and lolly-gagging at every opportunity. When I worked in a hospital, I got away with a heck of a lot that benefited my patients because administrators couldn't be peering over my shoulder. That era could be coming to an end-or at least will come to an end if doctors and nurses don't take action. Hospitals are likely to follow either of two paths. 1. Administrators will get to indulge their urge to prioritize and track every task, noting time to completion. If staff don't enter every piddly little thing they do, they are treated as if they didn't do it. And if they do enter those tasks, they waste time entering, prioritizing, and checking them off. I worked with kids with leukemia. How do you assign a priority to bring a glass of water to a dying child? Even to suggest that is to talk bosh. And finally, it would encourage cheating. Want to make sure you complete tasks quickly? Don't enter them until you are about to do them. 2. The alternative are systems that reduce wasted time and allow staff to work more efficiently. It'd be quite useful to have hospital-specific Siri-like apps that staff could use to set reminders. When we gave blood products to those kids with leukemia, I had to follow a specific protocol to check them for reactions. I could have saved time and reduced stress if I could have simply hit a lapel button and said, "Siri, start blood protocol for Jason in B-307, automatically triggering the appropriate reminders. The same is true of communication. Staff waste a lot of time getting in touch. Instant communications would be a big plus. Most of the time saved would be 30 seconds or less, but taken together that'd make a big difference. There is not just tech. There is good tech and there is bad tech. --Michael W. Perry, medical writer

Haha, her name is Siobhan

@@MsStina84 what about it?

Hi Martha - thanks for reaching out! you keep it up as well! ☺️

yaffa im a sophomore in University and im also super interested in Pediatric Oncology! im becoming a PA ! good luck ! 💙

Aw thanks Chanel - it’s awesome to have you here!!

No but 2021

2021

I’m here in 2021

Thanks Hassna!

5th year resident omg 😳😳

Now

aw thank you for your support!! I'm already looking forward to making the next one :)

Oh fuck please no moreeeee

Jack Saltzberg what I love her videos

Thanks Bonux!!

oh wow big transition!! haha yes definitely having the nurses and all their experience on your side is critical, especially in the middle of the night when you are new and don't know the patients well! Best of luck on your first day - let me know how it goes!!

Thanks Lisa!!

Thanks Loveless - congrats on getting into medical school!! Great to meet you 🤗

Thank you Ariqah!

Thanks Maureen, haha yes it is hard to believe!! i've heard some of the concerns about cellphones is they don't always have reception in all parts the hospital...

Thanks so much Sarah!

Thanks Courtney! Yes I am so so grateful for that!!

Thank you Yama!

Thanks so much iKerewin!

Hi Raul - thanks for subscribing!! Great question... graduating from medical school there are definitely lifesaving skills we learn and in critical situations, we often know the first steps to take. BUT in residency you get much more experience responding to emergencies so by the time you graduate you will feel way more confidence (that's the hope anyway!!). ALSO as you said, there is so much help available that you never feel like you are alone, there's always someone to call, even if it means waking up your boss at home 😅

:) Thanks for the answer! Chanels and people like you motivate me so much to keep studying to become a doctor one day! Greetings from Germany :)

aw thanks maayan, you are so sweet! I'm glad you stopped by to say hi! 🤗

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