Monday morning, a patient referred by an acquaintance was anesthetized. After work, it was exactly 11 o’clock. On the other side of the phone, an unfamiliar number called. It probably means to have lunch at noon.
The reason why I want to invite guests to dinner is because I rejected gifts from my family. Therefore, I came up with a way to eat to express my gratitude.
When I heard that we were going to have dinner together, my heart was sour: After working for so many years, I don’t know what a restaurant at noon looks like!
The reason for the job is to shirk in every possible way. However, there still seems to be very persistent. Claimed: The table has been booked, and a few acquaintances have been invited to accompany him.
I had no choice but to call one of these acquaintances, the internist, and let her help push the dinner out.
Let’s get straight to the point, and I’ll say: Don’t you know the nature of our work? No time to eat!
Over there, he faltered and said, “Aren’t you going to eat at noon?”
Hearing this, I felt very uncomfortable: the common people do not know the situation of our anesthesiology department, how can you not know?
Looking back and thinking: yes. Internal medicine and surgery are almost impossible to fight. The only intersections are generally limited to consultation and do not involve surgery.
Some people say: Surgery patients will also involve internal diseases! For example, high blood pressure, heart disease and lung disease.
What I want to say is that most of these tasks are covered by our anesthesiology department. Except for those that must be adjusted by the internal medicine system, in most cases, the anesthesiology department controls the underlying disease of the patient. Therefore, it is also said that the anesthesiologist is the physician in the operating room.
I explained to her: We have to eat too, just not as regularly. If the meal time happens to be between surgery, you can sit there and have a “beautiful” meal. The premise of this situation is that the aunt who delivers the meal can deliver the meal in time. If the time of the aunt who delivered the meal is not so precise, she can only continue to prepare for the next anesthesia. If it’s a major surgery that lasts a few hours, eating can be a big problem.
A big problem? she wondered.
I went on to explain: Assuming that it is a major operation, it is impossible to run out to eat in the middle. And the only way to eat is for someone to take your place for a little while. Be careful, it’s a little while. Because, the people who eat have to replace everyone to eat one by one. It takes more than an hour for a person to get down at noon for five minutes. After an hour, the person taking over to eat can eat.
Who will take over the meal? she asked.
Is the anesthesiologist or the primary attending physician on duty that day. Sometimes, someone’s surgery just stopped, and that will take the initiative to take over for everyone to eat. Because, all the anesthesiologists know the bitterness of hunger at noon.
Can I finish it in five minutes? Can your stomach take it? At this time, she was very shocked.
I told her: Few have a good stomach in the anesthesiology department. Think about it, everyone has a biological clock. The stomach tells you to eat, but if you don’t eat it, can it bear it? Even if he can eat food, he seems to want to pour the food into his stomach in one bite. Over time, gastritis is the mildest. Some colleagues even had gastric ulcers.
Hearing this, she couldn’t help but say on the phone that we worked hard.
Put down the phone and get back to work. Mixed flavors inside: Is this job glamorous? Is this job lucrative? So what are we holding on to?