What do you have to do round here to get some cutting?

I just did a semi mega dog shift at K. Three nightshifts on the trot. I was originally going to do five but the half wit who books locums after agreeing I'd do five is pretending that I had contacted her asking not to do the weekend. I didn't but in the end I'm glad because I am already a bit knackered and A has pointed out to me that apart from actual holidays I have worked at least one day of every weekend for the last six.

I get very well paid and allowed to act up as a registrar when I work at K. This means swanning around looking important and reviewing other junior doctors diagnosis and management plans. I also get to save the day when they can't do a procedure or miss something. It feels fantastic its almost like being a consultant. The best thing about it is that you finally get some action in theatre. That is you usually do but not this time. Three days not so much a boil to lance. I was hoping at least for a couple of appendix but nothing. I managed to watch all three matrix movies with the news uninterrupted because it was so quiet. I shouldn't complain but I haven't done an operation for a couple of months now and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. Whilst sleeping on the couch in the doctor's mess last night I dreamed the whole sequence from skin to skin of a defunctioning loop colostomy. Its so not a healthy dream to be having. I don't want to dream about large bowl, stoma bags and shit.

I bet the next two shifts I would have been doing are chock full of nice straight forward ops that the other locum is going to get to do and he won't appreciate them at all!