 Well, welcome back to the channel, everybody, and happy Saturday. We did it to a little bit of light in here. Hold on a second. All right. So is this good lighting? That might be a little better lighting. So anyways, I didn't really talk about what I'm even doing here today, but you probably know by the title of my video. So I am on diagnostic call this weekend, which means I'm working two 16 hour shifts in a row. You heard that right. One six 16 hour shifts. Each of reading MRIs, ultrasounds, CTs, x-rays, nuclear medicine studies, whatever comes through the door, I have to read. The reason it is so long is because we do these call weekends. I think I do eight of these throughout the whole year. And yes, they are 32 hours straight. The reason we do them is because if one person does them, it increases our vacation a whole bunch. So this is how we get so much vacation in our practice. But when you're on these shifts, they're pretty brutal and they can be pretty miserable. So I got here today at 645, no, like 640 a.m. And it is now 1030 a.m. And I like just caught up, which is pretty tough. I figured since, you know, I'm an interventional radiologist, I also do diagnostic stuff as well. So I wanted to bring you along for this side of my practice and see what this is all about. OK, so my partner slash boss called me and said, hey, basically he had a thoracentesis on a patient. And since I'm here, why don't I just go ahead and do it? And that's exactly what I just did. Because realistically, there's no reason I can't just walk over there, insert the needle, let the text drain the floral fluid, send the patient up to the floor rather than having my partner come all the way in to do a procedure that takes like 10 seconds. So always do a favor for your people. And yeah, but anyway, as it's about noon, I haven't eaten anything. But I have to get back to the list because it's starting to build up. And I did a lot of list anxiety, which means anytime something pops up on the list, I have to read ASAP or I like to start getting anxious about reading it. And I don't want to get behind all that stuff. So let me get back to work. All right, so we caught up and now it's time to grab some lunch. All right, so if you're sensing a hint of urgency, that is because on these days, it gets like super busy super quickly. And if I get behind, I'm basically screwed for the rest of the day. Then I'll just be sitting here hammering out studies. So I'm like constantly running out back and forth, like running to the bathroom and 5 to P running to the cafeteria to get some food. Because I just have to like make sure I stay on top of this list because the hospital doesn't stop sleeping. The CT standards, the MRI standards, they don't sleep. And I got to keep up. It's even harder because I'm trying to block this whole weekend. But you know what? I do it for the people because I want people to see what radiology is all about. So as we do every time I'm on a busy shift is I will eat dinner slash that dinner. It's lunch lunch time special. Got my bubbly sparkling water finally caught up. I have another CT head about to pop up in two seconds, watching it on the watch list. And time to get to work and I get to leave to go home about 5 p.m. today. And that's not because my shift is done. That's just like what time our department closes. And that's what time I can go home and continue to read from home until 11 p.m. That's right. So after I finish here, I still have another five hours left. But things are going well. It's 12 45. I've read over 100 studies already, which is crazy. So let's keep this train moving. All right, so just caught up. It's after 5 p.m. Now it's actually almost 6 p.m. Which means I can actually head home right now, which is pretty awesome if I do say so myself. That's one benefit about doing this is I can head home at this time and read the next five hours from home. And yes, I do have five more hours. Also, let me know if you're digging this cinematic mode. I don't know. I kind of like it. It's like torture mode for video on this new iPhone. It's dope. But anyways, I just read. I was as well, literally just read probably think like 170 180 studies for the first 12 hours. I still have five more hours of work, which is insane. The volume that's happening today, as you noticed, I'm like rushing through talking because every time I vlog, it's like taking away time from being at home. And I'm trying to get back home so that they'll miss out and might be behind again. So head home, start my computer, volume from home, work from home, go from there. So I had to come back to the hospital. It's now 10 30 at night, by the way. Let's just say it's been quite a bit of a disaster to say the least. I've been trying to fix my home computer. It was like moving so slow. And eventually I got so behind by like 10 CTs plus basically had to come back into the hospital. So here I am reading from here because we're having some network issues or who the hell knows what, but I have about 30 more minutes here and then I get to go home and do it all over again tomorrow. All right. So it's officially 11 o'clock on the dot. I am dead tired and I'm going to shower. Wake up and do this all over again for another 16 hour shift. So let's talk for a second. Hey, I got some down lighting here. Let me see if I can switch this up. What a disaster last night was. So I actually went home, started reading from home at about whatever it was five or six p.m. Every study I pulled up would not load. So I'd pull up a CT scan, pull up MRI and it would take like 10 minutes to load. And I just see my list just piling up and I'm not reading anything. And as you can imagine, my anxiety started going. So I called my boss. He read a few while I was trying to figure out what was going on. And eventually we just came back to the hospital because I was getting so behind that I needed to read the studies. So that's what happened. So I went to bed at about 11.45 last night, went home to shower when I got home. And I just got back to the hospital this morning at 6.45. It is now 8.30. I just got caught up from all the overnight stuff. And I'm going to be here all day today, which sucks big time. So usually on Sundays, I can read all from home, which means every now and then I can go hang out with Adriana, take a little break, go on my balcony, relax, enjoy the absolutely beautiful weather today. But since my stupid home system is working so slowly and no IT to come out this weekend, I'm basically screwed and have to spend 16 hours today in a dark hall in the basement instead of at home. That's one of the biggest benefits from working from home is you can actually just hang out with your wife, have dinner, have breakfast, have lunch, have a snack here and there, instead of being by yourself in the hospital with no one else around, as you can see. So I'm not going to complain. This is just the way it goes sometimes. You know, what can you do? But I'm here finally caught up at a few emergencies this morning. And it's pretty funny to see how different the studies are and the indications for studies are here compared to what I'm used to in North Carolina. So I'm getting a lot of these like random indications for studies that I'm just not used to. For one, I have never seen an x-ray where a person caught a stingray and the stingray barb stabbed them in the hand and then did an x-ray. So indication for the x-ray was stabbed by a stingray, which I never thought I'd see. And then you also see a whole bunch of like hockey injuries, which I'm also not used to, like people getting into fight on the hockey ring. Never used to seeing that. It's kind of funny, but well, not the fighting, but seeing all these different things has gotten funny. Being in a new place in the Northeast near the water. It's kind of crazy. Oh, and I had a big boat accident yesterday. I was like the big trauma, crazy. So anyways, I'm going to get back to work and keep it close to how it today goes. And you'll see me kind of fade off after this coffee was off. Check in later. Okay. Things have changed. Head back home now. Thanks to Andromeda. And I'll tell you why in a second. Well, that was a complete and utter fail. Oh, that sounds good. Cheers. After run up and get dinner from. You saw me. I did. What'd you make for dinner? Chicken burgers, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts. Best life ever. How about this for a score? Who has the best wife ever? Real talk, though. I feel like I'm back in like residency, where if you remember on one of those videos from way back when it's actually one of the videos that got me like over a million views or something. But if you remember that video, let me turn it later. But if you remember that video, Andromeda came to give me lunch. No, wait, dinner while I was on call and I are back at UNC and she just did the same thing. So I feel like I'm in residency again, but I guess I get paid better now. So it hurts a little less to be here so late, but it still sucks. Talk to me wrong. All right, guys. So I'm going to go ahead and end the video here because for one, I'm super tired for two. Pretty much only have a few more hours left and then I'm done. So there's nothing too exciting going on here, but just ate my dinner. Now slowly reading the last straggler studies that are coming in. And that'll be it for me. As you can see, I'm getting tired, but that's okay. I have to be here first thing in the morning at about six forty five a.m. to be on CT and ultrasound again tomorrow. So that's cool. Then Tuesday I get to work from home. Hopefully my computer will be fixed because, like I said, I should be at home this whole time, which makes this weekend hurt a little less. But since my computer is not working and all this stuff is happening, I have to be in the hospital till 11 p.m. tonight, so it kind of sucks. But next time, if I bring you along for the run for the next weekend off, hopefully I'll be at home. Hopefully it'll be more fun because I get to hang out with Andromeda and, you know, break out the day a little bit. But on that note, I'll leave you all here. I'll see you all on the next video. Make sure you smash like, subscribe, and follow me on Instagram. And take time if you don't already. And I'll see you all on the next, I must put my eye out on the next video. Bye.