This might be my moment to vent about my incredibly lazy senior resident. This is the guy who comes in on the first day of service to let me know that I'm almost a senior resident and that I should be able to handle the service on my own. Translation: I'm really lazy and I'm probably not going to do a lot of work, but I'm going to pretend that this is a "learning" experience of the intern. And he has lived up to his reputation. He will only write the notes demanded of him by law. He presents none of the patients, so in the end, I still have to look up all the information so I know what's going on. He takes off for hours at a time. He makes "suggestions", expecting me to put in the orders and follow-up with the consultants. He sits back during rounds, with his little smug smile, while sitting back silently throughout the process. Put it this way, when he has clinic, the service is essentially the same; I'll still do all the work. He doesn't have a malignant personality that some other residents have, but the laziness is brutal. Two more weeks. I'll have to remind myself to not be such a self-righteous prick when I'm in that position. The saving grace is that I'm at Abington, where the consultants are happy, the radiology images get done promptly, and the social workers actually get patients out. Bless private practice medicine.
