First Day of OBYGN!

Crazy. I am not in Kansas anymore!
First off, the streets and traffic of NYC and my car (huge station wagon) do not mix. Especially when people double park.
Secondly, it's a good thing that I spent a lot of time talking with my classmate who was just at this rotation, because the current students were not helpful at all.
Thirdly, I can't understand most of my patients and the majority of my staff. English is the minority language.
Fourthly, what happened today.

• Drive through narrow streets of the Bronx
• Find hospital
• Find orientation site
• Get oriented
• Find OBGYN floor
• Spend a lot of time reading. Really nice midwife teaches me about reading fetal heart strips.
• Lady in labor comes in at 9 cm, get cleaned up and ready to help with delivery. Was asked to go call a pediatrician because the amniotic fluid coming out was tinged with meconium. Try to call pediatrician, no one is answering. Go back in room, baby has already been delivered.
• Another OBGYN attending marches in and states "They need a student in the csection NOW." Since the other student was scrubbed in for the delivery, that meant I had to go do it....didn't know where I needed to be, didn't know scrubbing protocol (thank goodness I have had my surgery before this). Get yelled at some more for not knowing what to do and having to ask. Scrub in only to watch them close (sew patient's abdomen back up)....?? They really needed a student for that?
• Get told to go see a patient in the ER. Find ER. It's a madhouse...exactly what you would picture for an inner city ER. Try to find patient, apparently you just yell the patient's name really loudly and wait for someone to answer. Find patient. Interview patient. Wait for resident to arrive. Get told to go back to Labor and Delivery
• Back in labor and delivery. Spend rest of time reading/learning about basic L&D stuff.
• Drive back home in NYC rush hour, gridlock traffic. Ai yi yi.