to do as much nothing as possible...indigo, md

this is how the year has felt so far. a bit confused and slightly off kilter. now as an anesthesiology resident----aka CA-1----aka clinical anesthesia-1----aka typically a second year resident and a first year anesthesia resident----PGY-2, etc as the acronyms could go on and on. i am training at a county institution in a large urban center----basically this translates into what is better known as the 'knife and gun club' for the ER and trauma services. county has their own terminology for what is known to many in the medical world as a 'trauma'----an 'RB' or 'Red Blanket'. Now i am not well versed in history of county or our armed services medical terms but i do believe this term comes from that in so much as throwing a red blanket on someone who was a trauma victim and required emergent care to survive. so as we go through our days and nights of training that the RB becomes part of our vocabulary. the interesting thing is the abuse of such a system----s