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On Being a Doctor |5 October 2010

Attending Rounds

George A. Sarosi, MD

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Requests for Single Reprints: George A. Sarosi, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417; e-mail, george.sarosi2@va.gov.
It is done! Finally, all the notes are written, all the discharge summaries are signed, and I lean back to do a little reflecting on the day's events and how it was before: It is October 1963, somewhere in the Northeast United States. I am the senior medical student sharing the on-call room with the intern. The telephone is next to me. The hospital operator rings. “Doctor, you wanted a wake-up call for 5:45.”
Time to roll out of bed and start drawing blood and doing CBCs on all of our patients. By 7:00 a.m., we've completed this. We have stained and read the CBCs and are now seeing the patients in the 23-bed open ward. Our team consists of a junior assistant resident, 2 interns, another senior medical student, and me. We are joined by the head nurse, who conducts rounds with us and reports on each patient as we go to the bedside.
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Sarosi GA. Attending Rounds. Ann Intern Med. ;153:482. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-7-201010050-00016

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2010;153(7):482.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-7-201010050-00016

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