ugh...3 more weeks of this...

Took weekend call today and for the most part, it went pretty well. It was like a living stereotype. There were three female attendings on board and they were all really nice/sweet people. However, it was painful following them around all day. They took long 30 minute breaks to chit-chat about their kids and how cute they are. The worst part was when the attendings joined forces with 12 females nurses to talk about Grey's anatomy and having steamy dreams about Mcdreamy. Puhleaze...you're freaking killing me. Project runway sounds like a great idea, but I don't think it'll work out. I'll never understand. The ironic part is, all the labor room televisions were set on football. Leave it to the good ole dads. I'm not really interested in that either.

I will probably get a lot of heat for this comment, but the thought strongly crossed my mind that I don't want to go into ob because it's a female dominated field for exactly the same reasons that I wouldn't want to go into ortho because it's a ridiculously male dominated field. This doesn't mean that I couldn't possibly enjoy the respective fields, but I don't want to spend 80+ hours in a group dynamic that makes me uncomfortable. I'm just not comfortable in large groups of a single gender. I really need balance, and ob/gyn is really lopsided. If you look at residency lists, aside from davis, peds tends to be heavily female weighted too.

ugh...these dumb thoughts keep me distracted...

-bender