hello the pitt enjoyers, 4th year med student who just finished interviewing emergency medicine (EM) here to offer up some real-life scenarios for ur viewing and shipping pleasure, feel free to insert whoever:
sometimes when you do compressions, your lanyard is bouncing all over the place and someone will come behind you and drag it around your neck so it isn’t in the way #intimate
similarly, if you are doing a sterile procedure and scrubbed in and your phone goes off, sometimes you’ll have someone else reach into your back pocket to check your phone. first of all, a little butt grab never hurt anybody, and second of all, this is ripe with juicy material for seeing texts (for example finding out your attending had a sexy hookup the night before OOP who said that that def not a real scenario that happened)
i cannot emphasize ENOUGH how much of a party specialty EM is lmao. all the residents know exactly which restaurants serve alcohol at 8 am bc they need cocktails post night-shift. some residents have a literal frat house that they all hang out at on the random days of the week they get off and there’s a basement where sometimes you’ll find a random resident sleeping bc they were too drunk to go home and had a 7 am shift the next morning (whitaker-coded)
also: energy drinks all day everyday, especially celsius. trinity santos would absolutely be shotgunning these pre-shift
speaking of partying: emergency medicine regularly has resident retreats which get WILD and messy (as in i have overheard residents talking about doing lsd together, hooking up with each other, going into labor??)
and more partying: attendings will pretty regularly host sleepovers, journal clubs, dinners, parties etc at their homes bc they are rich lmao. not something i see dr. robby doing but perhaps some night shift people
residents really are that close which is sweet. i’ve had residents ask for my feedback on hinge profiles and scroll through their messages with matches with me (looking at u santos and whitaker)
so many tattoos and piercings on everyone
intern tuesdays! most EM residencies have dedicated educational conferences every week on wednesday mornings (i think - perhaps this is revealing about where in the coutnry i am lmao) so everyone gets the night before off and goes to like happy hours or sleeps over at people’s apartment and stays out late
oh and speaking of wednesday conferences - sometimes they do fun little excursions like to the zoo to learn about snake bites lmao or to the beach where everyone’s in swimsuits and they’ll do a water rescue and drag a body out of the water and forget to warn all the beachgoers that this was a simulation lmfao, ripe with material for a comedy of errors type pitt situation
also perhaps revealing a bit about where i am again but a) EM is an incrediblyyyyy gay specialty i was SHOOK once i started talking to residents and faculty there is not a straight bone in that department b) in my experience on the interview trail lots of rural queer people are lowkey trying to come to this more urban location to train and be around gay people (coughWHITAKERcough)
residents frequently let med students (or honestly even newbie interns) practice IVs on them. plenty of time for yearning touches
when a resident offers to wipe down your computer station and keyboard with a sterile wipe and has to reach over your body to do so 🥵
residents will take drugs from the over-the-counter cart and self-medicate such as one resident i knew who (incorrectly) took antibiotics for some illness and gave herself c. diff (@ whitaker)
post night shift brunch! found family!
EMTs are consistently so hot. im sorry i said it. i dont think we know any EMTs yet in the pitt but i am Waiting
oh more yearning physical intimacy: when u have a trauma patient, you have to “log roll” the patient to inspect every inch and make sure you haven’t missed anything. that entails crossing your arms over a fellow nurse/attending/resident whoever while you roll the patient and leaves plenty of room for some arm rubbing hehe
anyway this is just a start, feel free to adapt and go ham <3
