ack it's such a crazy night. there's not a resident in sight and i'm left in the meantime to answer questions from the nursing staff, consulting docs, and deal with issues that come up with our patients on the floor on my own! this sucks...I have no clue what i'm doing...i put in random orders and make the best decisions that I can about what they throw at me and if i'm lucky my wandering around the floor will lead me to someone i can get to approve and sign these orders. podiatry comes in and tells me to get 1 patient ready for surgery tomorrow, so...take care of food/fluids/imaging/consults. ACK. to top things off my new intern never fills me in on plans for my patients so i'm perpetually trying to catch up and left looking like a fool on rounds b/c he hasn't bothered to mention changes/new orders. argh. Well half the time anyways...the other half of the time he leaves me to manage my patients on my own ... who knows what the heck i'm doing to these people.. ¶ 19:41