Hi! I’m Dr. Justine Chinn and I am the PGY2 on the Surgical ICU rotation at the main Stanford Hospital.
📸 : What time do I wake up? 5:15AM. I have my scrubs in little packages of socks and sports bras so there’s no thinking or searching required. Then it’s time for my Nespresso!
📸 : Interdisciplinary Rounds begins at 8:30AM. Today’s attending, Dr. Joe Forrester (‘18), gives us expectations for our presentations.
📸 : We visit each patient’s room with WOWs (workstations on wheels). Beside nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, patients and their family member all join rounds. These are some of the most critically ill patients in the hospital, so there is a lot of information, and it can be emotional.
📸 4: After rounds, we run the list with our critical care medicine fellows.
📸 5: SICU rotation is different because we don’t do any operating, but we do a lot of bedside procedures like changing central lines.
🎥 6: Dr. Beatrice Sun taught me how to do this when I was an intern and now, I’m teaching intern Dr. Daniel Ahn.
📸 : We’re always talking to the nurses about how our patients are doing and what the next steps are going to be.
📸 : On the phone with radiology discussing the protocol for a scan. We also give frequent updates to patient’s family members by phone if they aren’t there in person.
📸 : If we’re lucky, we get out of the hospital in time for a little selfcare. Dr. Aneesha Ahluwalia is an ophthalmology PGY2, who was in my surgery intern class, and one of my best friends in residency!
📸 : This is the furry face I come home to in the evenings 🐶
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