{"id":211,"date":"2006-07-18T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-07-18T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:24:30","slug":"returning-to-the-wards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/07\/18\/returning-to-the-wards\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to the Wards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my 4-year hiatus, returning to the wards has been an exciting yet daunting transition for me.  It didn&#8217;t help, of course, that I started with pediatric cardiology at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\">Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/A>, which isn&#8217;t exactly your typical patient population.  I mean, I may not know how to care for a baby with fever or diarrhea, but if the kid has tetralogy of Fallot, I&#8217;m your man.  In fact, after 2 weeks on the service, I was beginning to think that hypoplastic left heart syndrome was an epidemic in Boston.  Unfortunately, just when I was getting to know what I was doing, when I finally figured out why the interns laughed when they called me a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.inova.org\/inovapublic.srt\/heart\/pediatric_services\/cardiac_surgery\/bidirectional_glenn.html\">Bidirectional Glenn<\/A>, I was switched to another service.  It&#8217;s kind of weird going into general pediatrics now.  Knowing little else, I think I&#8217;ll just have to put congenital heart disease as the top differential for every patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my 4-year hiatus, returning to the wards has been an exciting yet daunting transition for me. It didn&#8217;t help, of course, that I started with pediatric cardiology at Children&#8217;s Hospital, which isn&#8217;t exactly your typical patient population. I mean, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2006\/07\/18\/returning-to-the-wards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}