Did I tell you that I inadvertently called the attending physician on Friday for blood pressure parameters for my patient's Cardizem? Learned my lesson about the hierarchy in a hurry. Yes, in fact, it was totally humiliating. And I'm not sure why, except that I didn't live it down in a hurry... And I did not get the damned parameters.For those who don't know the system it's like this, top down: attending, resident, intern... with, at my institution of practice, multiples thereof under the attending. "Nurse" is somewhere waaayyy down at the bottom of that totem*, falling fast when one phones the attending instead of the intern.
*Oh wait, we're not a kinship group. There I go, mixing up my careers again!
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