The Intern Experiments?

It's guinea pig time!

In an attempt to save money and generally just be stingy, The Zoo admin are conducting their very own intern experiment (I should charge them for copyright!) by stuffing around with our timetables. There's a conspiracy theory going around (based on the top secret 'leaked' email ploy) that this is part of a capitalist AWA ploy to eventually move all interns onto a shift based system of work (rather than our 'day job' system) in order to stop having to pay us overtime and thereby saving the government a few thousand dollars per year.

The RMO's are not happy. They are jumping up and down and brining in the consultants to back us up. The admin are citing their 'financial crisis' (which always seems to have enough money to pay for irrelevant departments/positions whilst not being able to pay their doctors).

And so I beomce one of the test subjects by doing an entire week of evening shifts. In reality I don't mind too much. It means I can sleep in and do stuff during the day before coming to work refreshed for the evening. Been shopping and swimming and watching late night soccer in an attempt to get some normality into an otherwise boring week. It's kinda nice to do a week of overtime too because you don't have to order any consults and justify yourself to registrars who should realise by now that it's your boss ordering them and not you and therefore they do not need to lecture you at length about the innappropriateness of your consult. It's nice to not have to battle daily with the radiology department about those 'urgent' tests (once again demanded by the boss) and wrestle with the dragon lady in the film department to get those scans onto the ward (oh why can't we have online radiology like every other civilised hospital?)

This week all I have to do is maintain the status quo. No need to solve the riddle, just keep the patient alive till the morning and "do no harm". Spending lots of time in front of the big TV screen is not necessarily a bad thing either.

Let's just hope no one gets too sick*!

*last night was quite awful with 3 'off' patients all going downhill at once... thankfully they are all alive tonight still which means I can't have done too bad a job?