One of the great parts of 4th-year is that you have more autonomy in your schedule. You choose your electives and sub-Is, you find away rotations that you potentially want to go to. So since I’ve finished my sub-internship, I decided to do a 2-week rotation in the surgical intensive care unit, aka the SICU. […]
Suffering in the SICU
After a very relaxing summer, I was catapulted back to reality when I was assigned to the surgical ICU for my critical care rotation. The surgical ICU is a busy place with a census of thirty patients, all of whom are incredibly sick. The hours are long, too. I had gotten pretty spoiled after rotations […]
