You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much beyond my Fitness Logs recently.
This is mainly because I have been working in the hospital. A lot.
Hospital weeks are always intense, with plenty of sick patients, the need to supervise residents and teach medical students. There’s also the whole no-days-off thing.
So you may imagine that I wasn’t particularly thrilled to be pulled in for emergency coverage soon after finishing my own scheduled stint in the hospital.
I was already sleep-deprived. The house was a mess after my last hospital rotation. I had a full schedule of clinic patients who needed to be rescheduled.
What kept me going throughout that week was an email from my boss, reminding me that I would get a bonus for this extra work.
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