Back in the Day

This is a whimsical post. I might be too young to start stories with "back in the day..." - especially since I did my acute pain rotation only a year and a half ago. But back in my day on the acute pain consultation service, we easily saw forty to fifty patients divided between two residents. Now that I'm on my chronic pain rotation, we cover calls for the acute pain service. After feedback from when I did the rotation, the workload has really come down; now the acute pain service tops out at about thirty patients divided over three people. I'm a little jealous because back in the day, acute pain was a terribly busy and stressful rotation.