Chris's Breakup Story in California - YouBrokeUpHow.com (uBUH)

Chris

October 13, 2009 @ (California)

This isn't an especially exotic breakup, but it certainly broke my back. When I was an intern, I took a weekend call pretty early ... on a Friday night, so the amount of trauma we saw was very heavy (idiots drinking/driving, getting stabbed, etc). That 28hr shift was pretty much the worst night of my life b/c of:

- my first end of life discussion w/a family
- getting my chief to come in was like pulling teeth
- a couple of traumas came in basically DOA
- my medstudent, despite being warned that it was going to be a tough night and that he should read up on diagnosing traumatic injury, decided to read up on wiring of cautery knives ...
- ... then had the nerve to cuss me out for not treating him like he knew anything, despite him never reading, never knowing anything about patient treatment other than pain level
- the floor nurses refused to take verbal orders, making me actually walk up to the floor and write it in the patient chart (no matter if I was in the middle of a Code Blue or not)
- in fact, I got into lots of arguments with nurses about retarded crap
- the next morning, I was so busy in the ER, the oncoming resident had to see all my patients, making me look like a total douche
- I didn't sleep
- I didn't eat after lunch
- hell, I didn't even get to sit down at ALL that night

So I finally get home, almost getting into an accident on the way home b/c of exhaustion, and I get into bed and crash. 10hr later I wake up, still wiped out, hungry as hell, and figure the only thing that can make me feel not like shit is talking to my [long-distance] girlfriend of 20 months.

Well, literally just after I said the words "I don't think I'll ever have a worse night in my life," she cuts me off and says that she doesn't think we should date anymore. I was so exhausted I could barely put up a fight. I just slept for another 24hrs, and didn't eat until 2 days later, when I came back to work. Absolutely heartbreaking.

It was at that point that my realization dawned: being a doctor SUCKS; THIS is what I busted my ass, all my life, my dream, for???

Comment on this breakup

marisa

April 17, 2010

WOW all the doctors I know complain about their jobs...seems like being a doctor is a pretty back occupation. That's why I am not carrying on the family tradition of not going to med school. you should find another career before you end up like the rest of my family unhappy, just above average middle-class family people.

missmadam

November 10, 2009

That is really really horrible.hope u stick with the job.

distephano87

October 22, 2009

Her love is like bad medicine...

Ricky

October 13, 2009

There's no way any nurse would ever require any doctor, even an intern, to write orders during a Code Blue. I know nurses like to push interns around, but that just won't happen, not when someone's life in on the line. Also, I've worked closely with interns and residents of all years, and interns get the shaft, residents get the shaft, senior residents get the shaft, even attendings get the shaft. Choosing to become a doctor means you have chosen other peoples' health and well-being over your own. You went to Med. School, you should've known what you were getting into. You should just be glad that you didn't get paged during your 10-hour or 24-hour sleep. If the ER is too rough, move to oncology or something.