Bad news

This day was a regular day until lunch. Some interns told me that I was needed at the
surgical ER. A finnish patient was in the ”schock” room and I was needed for translation. Only a few minutes later the telephone of my resident was ringing, someone form the ER was looking for me. A young man had had an accident during skiing in Engelberg and they didn´t have any information about him, only a cell, in finnish. The patient was already in the operation and I had to call the parents to inform them about the accident and injuries. This wasn´t nice. It was very difficult on the phone and the mother was of course totally schocked. I was supposed to tell her that his son had a severe accident but HE IS STABILE. Imagine the situation and try to guess if my ”your son is under stabile conditions, is now beeing operatde and will afterwards be moved to the ICU (intensive care unit)” was calming the mother at all. No, it wasn´t.

Grey´s anatomy

Talking about Dr. House, I also have to mention the rival. Carneval time was amazing! During the period I found out some things about some colleagues. Well, I missed the last part of the carneval fever because of the night shifts at the ER. I was kind of isolated from the rest of the interns, went for the free week to Helsinki and now, I´m back. Oh boy, I also missed two more parties during the time in Finland. No relationships in hospital Lucerne? Yeah right!

1. I already knew, that a girl intern had been dating a senior doctor and during my time away they had been on several dates.. The girl is now away, don´t know anything about their future, yet...
2. Another girl intern had an one night stand with a resident. Well, this didn´t work out that well at all, for the girl.
3. This happened at a party last saturday. A former german girl intern was at the party too, so a friend of mine had asked casually about what was going on in her life now a days besides that she was studying for the final exam in Germany. The girl answered: ” I´m the girl friend of Mr. X!”, who happens to be the guy from story two and had only a week earlier had the thing with the other intern...

Some of you my friends have asked me, if the everyday life in the ”real” hospitals is like in ER or Grey´s Anatomy. Are you now satisfied?!? ;-)

Dr. House

Yep, that's true. It has come that far, last night we had only two patients (which is like nothing for two docs and an intern). So we watched Dr. House. Wicked. Doctors on a REAL ER watch the SURREAL ACTIVITY on dvd. Well, tonight we've actually had something to do, but now (3 am) I'm finished with my three patients and might start watching Dr. House.

We in fact have our own "Dr. House" in Lucerne. He is a senior, about 35years old and reminds us of a primal person. His appearance is always a bit sloppy. His talk sounds like swiss german in chech. Try to imagine. And he is definetly not a role model what comes to his social skills. Once he ran straight into a room to a maybe 40year old female patient and asked her, if she had been fucking lately ("Haben sie gefickt?")? I mean, it sounded very hilarious, when a colleague told the story, but imagine you being live in the situation? Very awkward.

Ski stand

In the land of skiers and boarders there are even ski stands at the hospital (also in bars)... Or is it considered for umbrellas?!?

... and two more!

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Some carneval pics...

Night animals

So, the night rotation has begun. It's 02.30 and I have to be here until 07. I'm bored right now, don't have anything to do. Waiting for some semi sick patients to come. Oh, and it still is carneval. The first underaged for this night has landed on the ER. He had fallen into the river, had lost the balance during peeing. Great, what a story to tell afterwards...!