doing doctor stuff

This morning I once again got to see my three patients. It is really nice to focus on just a few, see them every day and be able to comment on them during rounds. It feels like I actually know what I am doing!!!! I hope it continues to be like that. After rounds I also got to write oders, just a doctor!!!! Then the resident did follow me, read over them and just signed. It feels great to be involved in patient care and having the chance to think about what the patient should have done during the day (which treatment, which labs, diagnostic studies....) and it feels even better when the resident agrees on what I thought!
It was just a short day, but a good one. Tomorrow I will be on call again (my second last call!). I am looking forward to it, I want to do a few exciting things, but on the other hand I would also like to get a few hours of sleep....We'll see how that goes.
Overall the working hours are not quite as bad anymore. Since my team is post call every other day, I get out early every other day, but unfortunatly I still need to get up really early and so far I have not figured out how to sleep well during the day. It feels good to get out of the hospital early and get to a non hospital environment for studying, just knowing that I could do whatever I want to is really great, except that I am usually to awake to take a nap and too tired to really study.... But overall I am glad that I don't have to spend more than 70h per week in the hospital anymore!