My first medical internship (translator said it’s called “medical clerkship” but that sounds kinda fake?) is almost over now. (In Germany we’re required to do a 3-month nursing intership before the 4th semester, so this is the first one that is with the doctors.) It’s been great, and I think I’ve learnt a lot! Including that I still have a lot of holes in my medical knowledge, lol (and
I’ve noticed that I
really
need to do smth about my tendency to recall every even slightly
embarassing/wrong thing I’ve said that day in the evenings, and occasionaly getting a
Mental Slideshow of Horror with
the entire last week/month/year).
Though that’s not to say the nursing internships weren’t useful. They definitely were, but: though both are unpaid at most hospitals including the one I’m at, right now I’m actually getting the impression that this is more about teaching me and making sure I get experience and less about getting me to do as much labor as possible. To be fair the last nursing internship was good too, but the 2 months at the current hospital (but at a different ward), not so much. It’s mainly the little things that matter a lot, like thanking me for my help when I leave even though they know I have to do that. Or not minding if I sit down to eat something small outside of lunch break (and telling me that they have a task for me but I can finish up first vs. that one nurse who tried to tell me off for sitting down to continue my break when there was no work to do even though I truthfully told her I hadn’t finished my first break). Or letting me leave early when there’s nothing going on, or letting me miss a day because of a dentist appointment even though I offered to work a day longer or on the weekend.
I’m honestly not trying to say that doctors are nicer than nurses or anything like that, I know that wouldn’t be true, but for me personally & in that particular hospital, the work atmosphere they have was better even though they have just as much stress. I kind of feel like that’s partially because of the head nurse, who is so committed to discipline that there was a conflict with some nurses about leaving 10 minutes early when there was no work left to do (actually some of the other nurses did let me leave a bit early sometimes but only when she wasn’t around), and working all the time except during break because “you’re paid for those 8 hours, and you’ve chosen to work 8 hours so you have to do that!” nvm that there’s no option to work 6 hours which leads to people pretending to work when there’s not much else to do. But tbh I am biased since I had to work 9 days consecutively right at the beginning of my very first internship, and by the time someone had told me which schedule I had to look at to find out when I’d be working, she and her deputy were already on vacation. Because it was Easter. And if this were now, I would’ve tried harder to fight that, but back then I just accepted when the other nurses told me they couldn’t change the plan and actually convinced myself I wasn’t upset about it (which is why I am now). And she also doesn’t remember me (which I understand, they get a lot of interns, but at least two of the other nurses do) and clearly thought I was rude when I asked her something without introducing myself first. I mean, I wouldn’t say she’s a bad person, but… not really a person I can easily understand or get along with.
@ my brain I’d really appreciate if the constant reminders of the things I said or did embarassingly or wrongly would STOP. Especially when I’m trying to relax.
Germany had so much renewable
energy on May 8, 2016, that it had
to pay citizens to use electricity. It
was so windy and sunny that turbines
and solar power sources were
supercharged, output exceeded
demand, and prices went negative, so
customers were actually paid to
consume energy. Source
Some add the “Scientists politely remind world that clean energy is ready to go, whenever” photo im on mobile
I wasn’t getting paid, someone else must have got my money!
The truth is that we regularly have too much renewable energy (when there’s, like, a cloud cover that moves very quickly, or when there are strong irregular winds; curiously enough, these two phenomena often occur together) that we have to pay our neighbours to use up our surplus. When, for instance, the Belgian highway lamps are shining bright in the middle of the day, you can bet pretty safely that it’s sunny over Germany. But this is not something that will appear on our electricity bill. On the contrary.
What the article also doesn’tmention is that we also regularly have to buy nuclear power from our neighbours, or produce nuclear and coal energy ourselves (often both). Because the trouble with Clean Energy is that the means of storing it is in fact nowhere near ready. (Which is exactly why Belgium gets paid to use up German solar power: Because we have no way to store that energy for, like, when the sun is NOT shining. Which happens. Very rarely. Every day.)
In conclusion, Clean Energy is ready to go whenever on paper, but in reality, we’re still working on storage technology. 😦
Tattoos That Turned People’s Scars Into Works Of Art.
I’m shooooook. Wow.
My dad does mansplaining so well. Like, I’m trying to explain smth to other people, and then (after I’ve finished talking if I’m lucky, interrupting when I’m not) he repeats what I’ve said more loudly to “help”. And when he’s not doing it my mother is. Also the skype connection quality was horrid, which makes the feel even more like they’re “helping” by repeating everything. I know this isn’t that important, but I’m the one who researched it and it’s a bit frustrating. ANd whenever I try to talk I’m interrupting him.
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