Oriented

Now I'm ready to begin. I guess.

Got my pager...my PDA is on the way in the mail. I have several "pocket guides" ready to stuff in my short white coat.

Today I heard that the nurses know full and well what our short, white coats mean. They mean that we're doctors in training. We are clinically very incompetent. I hope the nurses are respectful and kind to us...because I know we are to them. In a matter of a number of years, I look forward to the day when I really know what I am doing. Until then, it is in the bowels of medical education that I shall dwell, where I will, like every other physician, slowly and steadily climb my way up, day after day.