In the hospital, remember this one thing: in almost every situation, no matter how bad your day has been, the patient in the bed is having a far worse day than you.
Your attending might yell at you, you might not do well when being pumped, you might resent being up at work at 5 am.
But you woke your patient up at 5 am too, in a strange bed in a strange place so that you could poke and listen and ask if they have passed gas. At the end of the day, your attending will have forgotten that they yelled, you will have learned something new, and you’ll get to go home to sleep in your own bed. So never forget to put your own feelings aside and remember - this experience is not just about you, and that getting to do this at all makes you very, very lucky.
