In his first week in the emergency department, Ali skips lunch to get through the full waiting room, and a consultant tells him to take his breaks
story · status: told 4× · last event: retold (2025-06-28) · owner: Ali
About: Emergency medicine
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-14 | told | The consultant also made Ali take his lunch break, which Ali says is legally required every four hours because focus and concentration otherwise fall. | How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job 00:08:15 |
| 2025-02-18 | retold | When Ali planned to skip lunch to get through the patients, the on-call consultant told him the waiting room will always be full and it matters more for the doctor to be rested than to burn out skipping lunch. | How I Manage My Time - The Triage System 00:18:37 |
| 2025-06-26 | retold | When Ali asked a consultant why the waiting room always seemed full, he said emergency medics soon realise it will never be empty: the goal is to show up every day as your best self and see patients in order of priority. | Stop Trying to Do Everything 00:00:29 |
| 2025-06-28 | retold | The physician in charge of the emergency department basically forced Ali to take a lunch break, a moment that has always stuck with him and that he says he should remember more often. | This Rule in Emergency Medicine Changed Me 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-02-14 · How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job — Ali: On his first day in the emergency department as a doctor, Ali saw about eight patients in an eight-hour shift, skipping lunch, and the waiting room was still full when he went home. — 00:06:58
- 2024-02-14 · How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job — Ali: On his second day in the emergency department Ali batched radiology calls and blood tests, skipped lunch and saw 12 patients, yet the waiting room was still teeming. — 00:07:23
- 2024-02-14 · How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job — Ali: A consultant told Ali that the waiting room will never be empty: there will always be more patients, and all they can do is show up as their best selves and see patients in order of priority. — 00:08:15
- 2025-02-18 · How I Manage My Time - The Triage System — Ali: In his first week in the emergency department as a junior doctor, wanting to save the day, Ali took about an hour over his first patient and then found the waiting room teeming with patients. — 00:17:37
- 2025-06-26 · Stop Trying to Do Everything — Ali: In his first week in emergency medicine Ali walked in with a swagger to save lives, saw about eight patients in a day at about an hour each, and on the way home found the waiting room still full. — 00:00:00
- 2025-06-26 · Stop Trying to Do Everything — Ali: The next day Ali tried to be more efficient by seeing two patients at once and saw about 12 patients, but the waiting room was still full, and this went on for a couple of days. (hedged) — 00:00:29