Questions of the Week: December 23rd

[Vanquisher]

What are the best and worst things about having your dawkter work on a holiday?

What is the longest stretch of days off your dawkter can take off in a row?

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Best: It's the excuse of all excuses
Worst: Everything is closed, so I'm stuck home alone (usually) and can't even go to the grocery store.

He can take off a week at a time, no more, no less - except for things like interview. He's taking off random Thurs or Fri for those. Conferences don't count as vacation time. This year he lucked out - paternity leave, 3 weeks vacation, 4 conferences.


Wife of a PGY-4 Orthopod

[Pollyanna]

Best: no pressure to travel. Worst: I miss spending the day with him.

Hmmm, I have no idea how many days he can take off in a row. I imagine no more than 5.

[corn poffi]

Y'all are gonna hate me, but he hasn't had to work a holiday yet. He usually has to work the morning of or day after, which means he gets to opt out of my out-of-town family events (con), but I have an excuse to leave my family events early to join his family (pro).

As a resident, he can take up to one week off at a time, but he has to request them a year in advance.


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[diggitydot]

Best? Our families gave up on us traveling to visit them over the holidays long ago.

DH is paid on production, so he can take as much or as little time off as he wants. He's a nice guy, though, and frequently covers holidays for other docs. One of the OBs in town NEVER gets time off because he always has c-section call. DH took his call this week so the other doc can go visit his sick parents for what will likely be their last holiday season together.

[Curegirl]

Worst is having people not understand he doesn't have a choice in the matter and then saying crap like "if he really cared..."

[SoonerTexan]

Hasn't happened yet , though he may have to work New Years.

A pleasant surprise of residency interviewing has been the majority of the Rads programs give a decent amount of vacation and let you take it in whole day or even half day increments.

On a random note, the call at our #1 choice sounds heavenly. 2 months of night float taken 1 month at a time, but nights for the first two weeks straight and then 2 weeks completely off. The residents say it's like extra vacation!

[Thirteen]

Best: no pressure to travel.
Worst: The patients that dial in when he's on call are usually demanding, and grumpy ('tis the season). And, he's on call this whole week.


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[GrayMatterWife]

What are the best and worst things about having your dawkter work on a holiday?

Best: I don't really mind too terribly, and it really helps the docs to whom it matters a lot. It is nice to be able help out so that others can travel.

Worst: Listening to my parents bitch (as if it matters to them…they never visit for Christmas!) that DH "is always on call. Doesn't anyone else take call? Why does he let himself get pushed around?" (None of which are true--he volunteers to take holiday call, if needed).

What is the longest stretch of days off your dawkter can take off in a row?

During the holidays? I don't know. We've never tried to vacation during the holidays. This year is weird. He was on-call Thanksgiving, and is off-call on Christmas. But the day after Christmas, he leaves town to take a week of "vacation," doing locum work for a week out in the Georgia boonies.

[SuzySunshine]

Best is definitely no pressure to travel, worst is that we miss him.

He can take what he wants as long as his partners can cover, he took 10 days last Fall when we went abroad. This year he's off 12/21-26 and NYE and NyD.

[mommax3]

He hasn't had to work Christmas as an attending, which is awesome. I hate when he has to be on call over Christmas....as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing good about it!

He can take up to 10 days in a row off, which he usually does in the summer for vacation.

[MrsC]

Best: We don't have to travel or host anyone over the holidays.

Worst: I miss him and it usually means we can't go to church Christmas Eve because he's working that day and midnight service is too late.

He would take one week off.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Best: No pressure to travel/see family this Christmas!
Worst: Away rotations while in residency!!

He can take 1 week off at a time (9 days because of the weekends on either end), scheduled a year in advance.

[alotofyarn]

What are the best and worst things about having your dawkter work on a holiday?


Best: I can do what I want to do and watch all the stupid TV.
Worst: Being lonely, although thankfully this year I have family close by, and really in the past we've had such good friends locally that we had fun those years too.


What is the longest stretch of days off your dawkter can take off in a row?


He got 5 days off (his vacation days for the first half of the year) when we had E, and after working Saturday night he's off until Friday night for Christmas (he'll work New Year's though). He'll get another 5 days off in the spring.

[MAPPLEBUM]

What are the best and worst things about having your dawkter work on a holiday?


Best: I can do what I want to do and watch all the stupid TV.
Worst: Being lonely, although thankfully this year I have family close by, and really in the past we've had such good friends locally that we had fun those years too.


What is the longest stretch of days off your dawkter can take off in a row?


He got 5 days off (his vacation days for the first half of the year) when we had E, and after working Saturday night he's off until Friday night for Christmas (he'll work New Year's though). He'll get another 5 days off in the spring.

Same as above, except it's almost harder to have him come home and get called back immediately. Worked essentially all day yesterday. Called back in evening. Called back at 1am. Didn't come home until dinner time today (got 2.5 hours sleep total) and got called back in on the way to dinner. Came home and insisted on watching 30 minutes of TV. Got 45 minutes sleep before getting called back in. The strain of his sleep deprivation is hard on me (my phrase to him is "this is your hardest week of the year." and probably true. 4 days of work+call.)