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Arrrgghhh!

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    Arrrgghhh!

    So, my question is: how exactly can one person be on call for two different services with three different hospitals?

    My husband is on-call for the adult neurology service and is back-up for peds- and is somehow supposed to be able to be at Walter Reed, Bethesda and DeWitt (Ft. Belvoir) for both. He was supposed to be home about 3 hours ago but due to the about referenced issue, he's not home yet. I doubt he even comes home tonight. He'll probably sleep in the call room at one of the hospitals.

    Management- not a strong suit of medicine. or the military.

    Jenn
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    That is freaking ridiculous and unfair! I feel for you! Why doesn't the army use their supposed intelligence and clone your hubby.

    Hope he comes home.

    Jennifer
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    • #3
      So annoying...that really stinks.

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      • #4
        That's crazy! I'd say it would take a freakin' miracle for him to come home tonight. Is there somebody coordinating the schedules for all of those places that thought that was acceptable?
        Awake is the new sleep!

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        • #5
          Insane. But what else can we expect?

          Are you guys military "lifers"? It seems that way from your posts, or maybe it just seems like you've been in a lifetime.

          Hopefully he will just stay in a call room rather than driving home half asleep.

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          • #6
            Re: Arrrgghhh!

            Originally posted by jloreine

            Management- not a strong suit of medicine. or the military.
            Management and medicine alone are a dangerous enough combination. Add in the military....oooohhh boy..... :!

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            • #7
              He finally made it home 11ish and was promptly paged and then spent half an hour explaining to an intern that an altered state is not necessarily a seizure. (poor guy, my husband had to peel him off the ceiling. I can tell when he's talking to a med student or an intern because he slows down and goes through every single step in the decision process with them. I guess he remembers how clueless and lost he felt!) After THAT, he got paged from peds and after that I went to sleep and he ended up sleeping on the couch with both pagers, the phone and his cell phone right next to him.

              Yikes!

              Jenn

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              • #8
                Oh, and Jenn P., we're lifers because he was enlisted, then in the Guard and then went to USUHS and since he owes the Army 7 years after we finish with the never ending training, he'll have 22 years in.

                Jenn

                PS- He went to med school & residency with a girl who did ROTC (4 years) then USUHS (7) plus now is doing a fellowship in allergy. So, we'll be passing her in the hallways forever. (and the guy who did West Point (5) and HPSP (4))

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