A dull Sunday here in Wellington. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve finished my split weekend on call – in the hospital for six hours yesterday afternoon but then spent the rest of my on call at home. Watched a terrible Netflix rom com and then early to bed, to sleep the night through undisturbed. Had a very experienced registrar on night shift but that\u2019s no guarantee – if the shit hits the fan sometimes it\u2019s all hands on deck (mixed metaphor? Anyway, definitely unpleasant visual imagery.)<\/p>\n
No side effects from my COVID shot apart from a very slight ache in my left deltoid where my mRNA is being re-engineered, or something.<\/p>\n
Making gradual progress wading through the old work emails. Here\u2019s the latest installment.<\/p>\n
From:<\/span><\/strong> Kirsty Jordan Hi All,<\/span><\/p>\n Well we had a lovely Summer. It was on Friday: I hope you enjoyed it. That was the day we finished moving into our new house. The renovations are finally finished. Well, they must be \u2013 our builder has gone on holiday. Earlier in the week we discovered our lovely new granite benchtop had suddenly become two granite benchtops. This was not as good a development as it sounds. So, currently we have a plywood benchtop instead. This sort of industrial chic was very popular in interior design a couple of years back I understand. Actually I read last week that stark white kitchens are already pass\u00e9 \u2013 and we hadn\u2019t even moved in yet! I suspect a conspiracy of planned obsolescence to keep the renovation industry flourishing. In the meantime, Trump is POTUS and nightmare becomes reality.<\/span><\/p>\n The schedule for the coming week has a shambolic quality as a result of various hospital departments struggling to get back to reality after the strike. So, a number of TBC lists remain just that. My gut feeling, for what it\u2019s worth, \u00a0is that they will become neuro semi acute lists.<\/span><\/p>\n Monday<\/span><\/p>\n Holiday \u2013 some people are working but I have no say in what they do. How will they cope?<\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n No ENT list at the last minute \u2013 currently TBC. If neuro doesn\u2019t step forward it will be acutes.<\/span><\/p>\n Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n Kirsten and I tag teaming in ortho and neuro according to our subspec skills (she has some \u2013 I don\u2019t)<\/span><\/p>\n More extra gyne preassessment. They swear to me that these are vital.<\/span><\/p>\n Will Y taking part 2 teaching. I\u2019m sure your neuroradiology list will be finished on time \u2013 its only a morning list. (Ed\u2019s note: sarcasm)<\/span><\/p>\n Friday<\/span><\/p>\n Lots of paeds heavy lists scattered all around today. I have plenty of paeds people available but it\u2019s very hard to know where best to put them. Mark S (paeds surgeon), bless his heart, has certainly developed a penchant for booking paeds surgery cases onto the paeds painful procedures list which is quite unnerving when you\u2019re just expecting a little light botox. Vicki, in the absence of Andrew\u2019s guiding hand, I suggest we meet on Thursday afternoon to work out a suitable division of labour.<\/span><\/p>\n Next week Chris brings out his first schedule of the year so expect something fresh and new.<\/span><\/p>\n Cheers from Kelburn.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dull Sunday here in Wellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-1E6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7974,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/15\/old-scheduling-email-18-august-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":6330,"position":0},"title":"Old scheduling email 18 August 2017","author":"Interloper11","date":"June 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Haven\u2019t had one of these for a while! 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\nSent:<\/strong> Sunday, 22 January 2017 2:17 PM
\nTo:<\/strong> Wellington Anaesthesia All Staff
\nSubject:<\/strong> Moving<\/span><\/p>\n