Yet another 'Happiness is...' post

Happiness is

-A clean pair of socks on a call day
-A clean apartment on a post-call day
-French vanilla cappuccino en route to see the 5 ER consults I just got in the past 15 minutes
-A fully charged phone
-A co-resident with whom I don't have to watch what I'm saying
-That rare, golden weekend
-A charge nurse (S) to whom you only have to say "S, there's a patient coming up from the ER with a subarachnoid hemorrhage", and before you know it, you have an open ICU bed, a ventricular catheter already set up at the bedside and the crash cart at the ready.
-A chief resident that tells you it's going to be OK
-A day in the OR
-A mother you can call, at a moment's notice, no matter what hour of the night, because things are just not going well
-Dinner on the balcony with J
-A set of bills that have just been paid
-A good night's sleep
-Being pimped by your attending, in front of the entire team, and knowing the answers
-That patient that tells you, when you least expect it, how glad they are to have you as their doctor