Happy Thanksgiving! Are you off today?

[White.Beard.Doc]

For so many years, Thanksgiving was the holiday that I worked. It became a family tradition that we would celebrate Thanksgiving on Friday. That’s just how it was.

The last few years I have started taking life a bit easier. It kind of threw a wrench into things. “Huh, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday this year???”

I hope many of you are off today, enjoying a nice day with your family.

[Hatton]

Yes.  I have worked many a Thanksgiving in the past but now that I work 3 days per week I work no holidays.

[CM]

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[ENT Doc]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. On call here, but not going in until Monday.

[FIREshrink]

almost always off. if i am assigned it, i trade it for christmas or new year as thanksgiving is my personal favorite of the three, and the most important to my extended family.

[VagabondMD]

For many years my IR partner traveled to spend Thanksgiving with his family, so I was on call. Sometimes there was a case, sometimes not, only once during dinner.

Now that I have dropped IR, I can select my holiday shift, and it will not be Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. (This year was Labor Day). I am working a half day tomorrow but off the rest of the weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the members of the forum.

[PhysicianOnFIRE]

Thanksgiving weekend is the longest call stretch anyone has to take in my group. We could split it up, but then 40% of us would be working every Thanksgiving weekend. As it is, it's a 120 hour stretch of "home call" which probably works out to 50 to 70 hours of in-house work.

Fortunately, I'm off this week. Also last week. And next week. Life is good! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[RocDoc]

Off! And the house smells like pumpkin pie I'm baking right now. I took the whole week off and we're enjoying visiting with friends and family. Yesterday we helped at a Turkey Fry for Hurricaine Harvey families.

[startupdoc]

Happy thanksgiving everyone! On a long stretch of home call from Wednesday - Sunday. Please, people, do not swallow the turkey bone

[The White Coat Investor]

Off today. Worked yesterday. Work tomorrow. Work on Christmas. Evenings, nights, weekends, holidays. I've managed to eliminate one of those, decrease another significantly, and decrease the others slightly (by working fewer shifts) but I'll never get rid of them completely as long as I want to practice medicine.

[MaxPower]

I’m on call today (and was yesterday as well). We also just plan for our Thanksgiving meal on Friday when I’m on call for thanksgiving. I had a few patients in clinic yesterday wish me a Happy Thanksgiving, and I told them I was on call. I think many of them realized in a small way that being a doctor isn’t all fun and games.

[Tpeters2010]

Happy Thanksgiving!

On call, rounded on my inpatients, now home. It's a small town without hospitalists.

Thank you to those physically in the hospital (e.g. ER, anesthesia are ones I think of), nurses, other hospital staff.

[nachos31]

My clinic is closed today and I took tomorrow off so getting to spend the holiday out of town with family. I'm on call Christmas Eve and Day but it's just phone call so no biggie--will still get to celebrate with inlaws in town.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[barelybarefoot]

On call tonight. Hoping all those pregnant women are sleeping soundly from the tryptophan. Otherwise I plan on seeing lots of 'false labor,' aka those with abdominal pain and pressure from over eating tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[wideopenspaces]

Happy Thanksgiving! One benefit of working outpatient is never working a holiday. Many thanks to those of you who are taking care of folks today.