 And just like that, we are back at it again with another seven days straight on call video. Once again, I am on the west side, which means I'm covering three hospitals for the next 168 hours, which as always is just a lovely brand old time. The only difference about this time is that it is during the New Year's Eve holiday week, which changes things up just a little bit. This video is sponsored by MIM. MIM is a study tool designed specifically for the MCAT. MIM combines evidence-based study principles including space repetition, testing effects, interleaving and desirable difficulties to accelerate learning and memorization for the MCAT. This study tool is also designed by my good friend, Kevin Jubbal and his partner, Dr. Richard Lee, who happened to store a 99% on the MCAT, which is way better than I did. MIM uses high quality flashcards that follow flashcard best practices. 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So for New Year's, since the New Year's Eve holiday is on Thursday, I believe, we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for that matter of no outpatient scheduled. And for those of you who are new around here, most of IR is scheduled as an outpatient. What I mean by that is patients who are outpatients are patients that are at their homes and they come into the hospital to do a procedure. That's a majority of what our cases are and we are not scheduling any of those outpatients currently this week because it is a holiday. We didn't do it last week for Christmas and we're not doing it this week because staff is always short. We have nurses coming out. We have techs coming out for the holidays. Everybody's sick around here during the winter time and we don't have the staff to maintain the outpatient schedule right now. So what does this mean for me exactly? Well, I have a pretty push week which I probably just changed myself. So maybe I won't say that. I have a pretty good week so far but I don't know what's going to happen because like I keep saying I cover three hospitals and literally anything can happen and people tend to get a little crazy over the holidays. They over eat, they over drink, they like to do fun things with family and something bad always happens and that's where I come into play. So please stay with me and join me for yet another week of crazy interventional radiology call and take you along for the ride as usual. Let's go. But one thing they didn't tell me until very recently and this is my second to last week on call ever here at this hospital. And for some reason, nobody told me about this whole area and this and pre-coffee for all the residents. So basically I've been here five weeks on call for a week at a time and I never knew this place existed until I happened to come down here with one of my co-residents who did his whole residency in this hospital and it's been pretty life-changing. So the funny thing is, I'm the one that told all my co-fellows about it too because none of them knew either. But either way, the hospital at least takes care of us here. If only this were the same at the hospital I spent most of my time at. It's low today and I'm not complaining whatsoever but I will say all the patients I've been consulted on today are all COVID positive which would normally make my anxiety level go up a little bit but if you're watching this, you know that out of the COVID vaccine I did the first dose of the COVID vaccine. So it makes me feel a little bit better about doing procedures on COVID positive patients. So at least I have some antibodies floating around in my body. So if I come in contact with the virus hopefully I can fight it off. So it's just a little added peace of mind which helps me go through the day and be a little less stressed because I have to admit it was beyond stressful being in the hospital, doing procedures on COVID positive patients all day long as many of my colleagues were taking care of them on the floors day in and day out. It's stressful. You like constantly live on edge wondering if you got the virus or came in contact with the virus and it's just, I don't know, it makes for so much more stressful than it is but on that note, it is about 4 p.m. right now. I'm going to start getting out of here, clean up a few things, get some procedures scheduled for tomorrow and that's pretty much it. Hopefully I don't get called in tonight on day one. Two, also known as Tuesday, I did get called a whole bunch last night and that was not happy about it. One of them was for a potential transfer that wasn't transferable. So that's good. Got walking out for that, had to look into the CT and all that stuff at about midnight. Then I went back to sleep and then got walking out at 1.55 a.m. on the dot about another patient who had issues with one of their drains and that is a non-emergent call and I do not like getting walking up in the middle of the night for those kind of calls. So I was not happy. Time to get down here so we can do another pulmonary artery and bullock me uptown. All right, so I got cut off before I was going to do that procedure but we ended up doing a pulmonary artery and bullocked me and if you don't know what that is or haven't seen one of those before check out my last video. I'll link up here. So you know what that is. I would've put a good detail in my last video so go check it out. And on that note, I'm going to head home now. It's seven o'clock p.m. And you know, as I always say, hopefully not get called in. So we'll check in tomorrow. So I didn't film today but one thing, got a little early, got a nice fresh fade from my boy. Ray over quality barbers. So unnecessary, but so in New York. Anyways, it is Wednesday. Like I said, I didn't film anything today because we didn't really do much. So didn't really feel like filming because I did zero procedures today. We basically, we're just doing emergencies today because it's essentially a holiday. We have limited staff, including nursing, techs, all that stuff. So we ended up not doing procedures today and just kind of damaged control a little bit. Managed some inpatient stuff here and there. And that's about it. So right now, got my haircut on the way home and headed home right now to relax hopefully for the rest of the night. We'll of course check in tomorrow on New Year's Eve. Exactly the best way to close out the year of 2020. Happy New Year's Eve. So not much has happened today, honestly. So I was supposed to do a COVID positive patient or a procedure on a COVID positive patient this morning when I first got in. Again, it is New Year's Eve. We're trying to get this done this morning just in case it doesn't turn into an emergency case this weekend. So yeah, now I'm just kind of sitting here, no cases on the schedule today, making some coffee from the free resident fellow lounge that we get here. And that's pretty much all we got going on. So I'll hang around for a little bit and see what else comes down the way. All right, so just finished that COVID patient changed out of my hospital scrubs and it is four o'clock now. Going to head home and relax. So I have to take the bus real quick, get home, take a shower, and hopefully Andrana will be there about the same time I am and we can enjoy New Year's together without drinking or going anywhere. What a fun New Year's. This is COVID time. Cash, because I am at a different hospital today, yet again. So today actually is Saturday and I didn't get called all morning but it is about 3 p.m. I think on Saturday. And I got called in just to come and remove a line which isn't necessarily an emergency but something I have to do. Hopefully this may be it for the weekend but I really, really doubt it because I can never do an entire weekend without coming to this hospital especially. Even though I'm covering all three hospitals, I always end up with this one every single week. Ever seen a weekend and something always happens. So, well, I'll just say, I'll see you later. I swear, wearing these things, I am so ready to be done with this whole COVID thing. I mean, this is what? 20 minutes of wearing this thing? And I'm like sweating, my nose is running and my face looks like, look at my face. Let me see a light. That looks so bad. And I only work for like 20 minutes. These things are no joke. I don't know how these like ER nurses wear them for like a 12 hour shift. No idea, but I'm officially done. Head home now. And hopefully I don't have to come back. All right, so we are back at another hospital than I was earlier today. Have to go see a patient and remove a drain. It's like five or six PM right now. Gonna go do this and head home after the fact. And it is now Sunday in the morning. I'm gonna get caught in today and decided to take a nice little gym trip with Andriana. Where's the gym this morning? Hopefully this is it for today. And if I get caught in, I'm bringing it along for the ride as usual, but let's hope this weekend ends off nicely. And tomorrow, unfortunately, I have notified I don't get a day off, which is unfortunate, but whatever, back to the ride tomorrow. And I'm not gonna say goodbye yet because I don't know what's gonna happen. So I'll see you in a little bit. So that officially concludes this seven days straight on call. It wasn't too bad, now that I let back on it. And honestly, holidays can vary all the time and you never really know what you're going to get. So I consider this a win in my book in terms of seven days straight on call. But hopefully you all enjoyed it as usual. Let me know in the comments below what you think, if you want me to do more of these videos and all that good stuff. Make sure you smash that like, subscribe button, follow me on Instagram and TikTok if you're not already. Otherwise, I'll see you off on the next video. Peace.