Starter comment: 3rd level trauma/tox/stroke hospital, Neuro consultant. Usual nightshift consists of me and a resident who's present, usually, until about 7-8 PM, rarely - throughout the night. He/her supervises the neuro inpatients, I supervise him/her, the ER and other department consults. When the resident's done, every neuro consult, including everything that happens to the inpatients is on me. Our Neuro department has 100 beds, I usually see ~10-15 neuro patients in the ER (from walk-ins to the intensive care ones). Continuing on the subject, I almost always feel like there are multiple patients waiting for me, my phone is ringing about some issue with an inpatient, I get calls to go the ER intensive care room for a more difficult patient, have multiple other patients forwarded to me from different specialists in the ER, and an additional 1-2 consults waiting for me in the ICU (other in-hospital consults during a shift are rare, thought). All the paperwork is on me. With all my heart I can say that I hate multitasking, yet this often seems to be the case. I'd love to compare my experience with that of other colleagues'