alarm clocks need to learn...

... how to wake me up.

Oh gosh...I almost slept through rounds today.

Yesterday was my first day on the Cardiology service and it also happened to be on-call too. I was able to get to the call room by 12:30 am...and I set my alarm for 6:45 am, for a good 6 hours, but....I missed both my cell phone alarm and my pager! Ughhh...

It wasn't until 7:15 am, that my senior paged me to put some orders in that I woke up. Sighhhh...thank God I got paged, but putting in the order took me an extra 5-10 min of my time, trying to figure out how to use the new computer system. And then, another 5 min commute to the conference room...I am now at about 7:30 am. I still haven't gone to the bathroom...hoping that the urgency to pee would make me work faster. I found all labs and vitals..taking another 5 min. Ran to the bathroom with my toothbrush and toothpaste in my white coat...another 5 min. Spent about 15 min with both of my patients. Bringing me to 7:55 for a little breather, before going on rounds.

Anyways, I think alarm clocks need to learn how to wake me up. I guess the converse is...I should learn how to wake up to alarms...