Last week at the hospital….. 

I had had it.  Too many days in a row working, too many complaining people, too many demanding patients and demanding families.  Gosh that sounds negative on my part but I’m not going to sugarcoat it, the energy required by healthcare providers is monumental.  You need physical energy to move around the hospital, up and down floors, in and out of rooms, lifting people, catching people, bending awkwardly, reaching awkwardly.  You need mental energy to focus on what you’re doing, to critically think about what is going on with a patient, to determine the best way to treat it, to monitor to see if the treatment you chose was the right one, was it working?  It requires emotional energy (the hardest one of all for me, because I just give and g