Busy Friday on the Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Fridays at the hospital can be busy as people try to wrap up things for the weekend. Today was quite the example of that. I'm currently half way through my month on the BMT inpatient service. I woke up around 7:00 am and had a message and phone call from one of our junior fellows. She had admitted a patient with acute leukemia overnight. I got sign-out on this patient and our fellow did a great job! However, it was clear there were quite a few things to get done to take care of this patient today. I got to work just in time for morning division rounds on Zoom. While I listened to conference, I pre-rounded at the computer. I had several existing patients to see, and I needed to take care of things for this leukemia patient. Then I got a message that a new patient was on the floor and needed admission orders. I put those in, finished pre-rounding, and made my way to the floor to round with the team. After rounds there were many things to do. First, I did the bone marrow biopsy. I’ve...