-: So my name is Matthew Joy.
I'm currently resident physician in training at the
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
in Roanoak, Virginia.
I'm' training in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
So on a busy day, usually means I'm waking up around
probably five o'clock, 4:30, five o'clock in
the morning to get to the hospital by 5:30,
six o'clock in the morning to round on my patients.
I usually see anywhere from a couple to a
half-dozen patients in the morning, these are patients
that have had operations recently that are still
in the hospital.
See how they're doing.
Write notes and orders for them in the morning and
then head to the operating room to work with
one of my attendings for the day.
Anywhere from two to five or six operations for
the day depending on the length of those.
Usually finishing up operating sometime around
five or six o'clock at night, sometimes earlier,
sometimes later, and then maybe checking on a couple
of those patients afterwards.
And then headed home for the evening.