Perfect timing 2

So as an MS3 (medical student - 3rd year) on your first rotation, there is only so much you know how to do. Which usually feels like abosultely nothing. Sometimes you are sent to get papers, like a consult or consent form in the ER, and even then you won't know where to find one. So you ask 3 different people who end up sending you from one place to the other and then back to the place you started. And even though you're doing something in 7 minutes that would've taken the resident 30 seconds, they still thank you for your "help."

This happened to me during my crazy on-call night. I had been wondering how on earth I will ever get to the point that my residents are, at which I will know how to do everything that needs to be done to manage even ONE patient. I was thinking this while scouring some cubbies at a nurse's station for the form; then I spied a lone Dove Dark Promise, its royal blue wrapper shimmering in the ED fluorescence. I asked the nurse, "Is someone saving this for a rainy day?" And she said "Looks like it's YOUR rainy day!" So having received the greenlight, I unwrapped it and shoved the sweet dark chocolate into my haven't-eaten-dinner-so-I-should-be-a-hungry-hippo-and-yet-I-am-not-really-hungry face.

You know Dove Promises, right? They come with little sayings on the inside. After finally discovering where they stash the op consent forms, I glanced at the wrapper:

"If they can do it,
You can do it."

How's that for some perfect timing.