mud weekend

When I decided to go down to 60% at work, I figured the easiest way to do so (for the ease of my group and for my own personal budgetary calculus) was to do 60% of everything. That is to say: 60% of days, 60% of call, 60% of weekends, as well as my share of holiday call, which is distributed on a rotating basis. (For example, this year I worked the fourth of July. Last year I had New Year's and Labor Day; the year before that, Christmas.) I considered briefly a work configuration in which I didn't take night and weekend call, but it was a surprisingly easy decision against that. First of all, there is an element to the kind of work that you do on call--emergencies, surprises, coping with limited staffing--that presents unique challenges, and I think that by continuing to do practice anesthesia under that subset of circumstances will keep me, you know, sharp. And the second, more pedestrian reason is that the additional pay cut for not taking call would be more than our family can afford at this point.So! Huzzah for call! The good thing is that, because of some strange quirk in the schedule, my weekend call for the last third of the year was fairly front-loaded, meaning that once we get past mid-October I won't have very much (or really any) weekend call until after Christmas. The bad part of this is that I'm currently in the middle of a stretch in which I am on call every other weekend for a month and a half. Sigh. C'est la guerre. I don't really mind--I'd rather be...
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