Oops...I was ____ and I fell and broke my ____!

So, turns out that being on-call on the weekend after a big snowfall is not the smartest thing you can do...especially if your call shift was optional! I was asked by one of the docs I am working with if I wanted to be on-call with him for the weekend. "Don't worry, we hardly ever get called" he said to me. "Sure why not", I said. I'll probably learn lots by being on call and see more acute stuff that doesn't come into clinic.

We saw variations of the "Oops I slipped on ice and fell" story...they were "I was at a Christmas party and had a bit to drink and I fell on my _____"

Friday: 7:30am-12:30am...4 surgeries
Saturday: 7:30am-12:30am...8 surgeries
Sunday: 7:30am-9pm...6 surgeries (should have been 8 but we were bumped by other more urgent surgeries)
Today: 8am-4:30pm...2 surgeries
Tomorrow: 7:30am with 5 surgeries scheduled.

I've been first assist on 16 of these so far (this basically means that I help the surgeon out while they operate and I get to help close up the incision...stitching!)

Ummm, excuse me, but I think I am in the wrong rotation! I'm in orthopedics, not surgery!!!!!! Seems to me that I'm doing more in surgery than my fellow classmates are in their Surgery rotations! Learning a ton, but a bit tired after all that. Lesson learned: Don't be on-call after a big snowfall.