My first page

I got my first page this morning. It was from my resident:

"So, uh, are you bored?"

Somehow, I had imagined that my first page would be more emergent, or exciting, or at least more patient-oriented.

I'd been following one patient since this clerkship started on Monday, but the patient was discharged yesterday afternoon, which left me with no clinical duties. My resident felt bad, but there's nothing much he can do because our team of five is currently following only two patients total. That will change after tomorrow when we're on-call. Maybe I'll also get a "real" page that's actually about a patient!