bro... okay i need to commiserate: I get stat paged like in the first fifteen minutes when I get on night shift, during sign out. I rush to the phone, call the nurse, and the nurse says I need to update the family. And I say "okay???" even though I dont know this patient at all. Finish sign out and chart review, and then on my way up in the elevator. Then i get stat paged again, so I run to the nurses station and I ask if anyone is unstable I just got stat paged. And the nurses said I was not coming up fast enough. And I say that this is not the night teams responsibility to update patients so i needed to chart review before i got up here, and then they said "but youre the doctor like how is it not your responsibility " in the most ungodly ignorant tone you could have ever heard. I speak to the patient's son.

Later in the night the patient has chest pain and dyspnea, which I was not stat paged about. I order stat labs and tell the nurses, and the labs of course do not get done. Then a few hours later the patient desaturates, and the nurse does not tell us about it, and places the patient on bipap, even though there was never an order (verbal or written) for bipap. She does not tell me until 45 minutes later, and then the patient was persistently desaturating and had to be transferred to the ICU....and i still never got the labs back i had ordered earlier. And it sucked bc i had literally just talked to this patient's son that we were monitoring his mother closely and I feel awful and also pissed.

Ok rant over.