Best of times（1）

Just as Thomas Lewis said in The Youngest Science 1937 internship: "No Job I've ever held since graduating from medical school was as rewarding as my internship.Rewarding may be the wrong word for it, for the salary was no money at all.A bedroom,board,and the laundering of one's white uniform were provided by the hospital;the hours of work were all day every day,and on call for admissions and emergencies every other night,all night long.There was no such things as a weekend.The hours were real working hours; when the night came,especially in the winter months,the intern was even more on the run than during the daytime shift." I share the same feeling that "The day never ended;it was one long twenty-four-hour run, trying to keep up with the orders coming down from the upper rank."

"And Yet,everyone,all the professionals,were frantically busy,trying to cope,doing one thing after another,all day and all night.Most of this effort was aimed at being certain that nothing was missed,that the diagnosis was a matter of certainty,and that the illness was not one of the few of which there was believed to be a genuine and effective treatment."

I was busy dealing with 3 new patients myself tonight and left ward at 10pm, still worrying about some other lab tests. The thing is, absorbing infomation, coping with many things at the same time, as well as being trusted and needed by patients can make every minute rewarding.
Internship,as a "pup" I also think, simply, the best of times.