UAMS Pediatrics

Ever get the feeling you picked the right residency program?
It was the end of another busy week on the general pediatrics ward team. Friday afternoon around 4pm I headed back to the fifth floor workroom to get the last of my checkout done so I could leave for home. As I arrived, I tried to get comfortable by taking off my white coat, but couldn’t find a suitable place to hang it. I obviously couldn’t hang it off the back of my chair as it would drag on the floor and I would inevitably end up rolling over it with the chair’s casters. I looked behind the door, no hook. I thought a second and decided to see if the housestaff office could help me out. Lori Miloni answered my call that afternoon and after hearing my predicament told me she would see what she could do. As usual my pager had gone off by this time and I was off to see a patient one floor down on the Neurology floor. After about twenty minutes I arrived back on the fifth floor, and met one of our Arkansas Children’s Hospital maintenance men pushing his cart of tools from our workroom. Much to my surprise two shiny new hooks were waiting for me behind the door. Wow, I was shocked. I looked down at my watch and it wasn’t even 5pm yet. You know you picked the right residency program when in under an hour you can have your suggestion acted upon.