Head and Neck Surgery
We have been working for six months now, divided into two groups in wards and a group of clinics. We call ourselves a group of tigers, squirrels and bunnies. Of course, these friendly names were invented by younger doctors, who took the idea from kindergartens where they took their children to before the pandemic. Sometimes questions from the Emergency Room about the name of the junior duty officer are answered - today is Tuesday, so it must be a tiger. Such answer is met with an uncultured reaction from an employee of the Emergency Room.
But more seriously. Such a division protects the Clinic and the patients against shutting down the entire medical staff, but it causes a lack of daily professional contacts between doctors, only the telephone and on-line means remain. It is especially important when the tigers finish their work on Wednesday afternoon and the squirrels enter the second shift. Only rabbits are present every day in all clinical clinics, without contacting the departments personally. So far, this system works, but it is certainly tiring for everyone.
A doctor described it from the squirrel group.