I feel bad having been assigned to my current rotation site. It is a wonderful outpatient pediatrics office. Stellar doctors, great staff, lovely patients and families. About half of my program wants to go into general pediatrics and would kill to rotate here. It's the sort of place that you would dream of someday working at.
I am so bored! Today I was working with my favorite attending, who is 30 years my senior and yet I feel like we could be best friends. But every patient we saw was either totally healthy or had super non-specific symptoms that we had to basically say we'd wait and watch. I want to see sick kids!
Don't get me wrong; it is a very relaxed rotation. I get to work around 9, get over an hour for lunch and am done by around 5:15. But I know many residents in my shoes would come in early to see more patients, or rush to try out the electronic medical record, or see patients on their own. I like hanging out with most of these attendings, but mostly just want to be done with this rotation. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
TIL: Sand fleas are tiny crustaceans than can cause small itchy bites on the skin. Rarely, certain species will bite the skin and then burrow into it to give their eggs time to mature and hatch. Seriously! There isn't really anything to do from a medical perspective but wait and treat the itchiness.
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