Tag: intern.year

Pager Trouble

Post author By Michael A. Castello
Post date August 20, 2018

One of the first items I was issued when I started residency, along with my ID badge, was a pager. Yes, we still have pagers, which has invited derisive remarks from local churls if we go out immediately after work and forget to leave them in the car. You may be surprised to learn that […]

Tags intern.year, residency, technology

Life Short Reads

Intern Insecurities

Post author By Michael A. Castello
Post date August 11, 2018

Now that I’ve finished my first month as an intern, I can admit I was afraid that the first time a nurse asked me a question, I would freeze, burst into tears, and run away. So far, so good. Perhaps the most awkward experience this month was not, in fact, showing first-time mothers how to […]

Tags hospital.stories, intern.year, residency