How to subvert isolation into peaceful solitude

Post date: 2020-08-03 11:57:13
Views: 175
I'm a resident physician. On my current rotation, I'm doing 24 hour shifts every three days. For reasons relating both to COVID and to the particular hospital I'm rotating at, if the shift happens to land on a weekend, I've got 16ish hours of mostly nothing where I'm by myself in a windowless work room or a windowless call room. Help me brainstorm ways to make this pleasant solitude instead of mind numbing isolation.

Difficulty: there's no wifi, and so little cell service that websites any more complicated than metafilter won't load on my phone, and phone calls are a nonstarter. The work computers block streaming services, and my seating options are old and not very comfortable desk chairs in the work room, and an old and not very comfortable twin bed in the call room.

I can't change out of my work clothes because I might be paged at any time.

I've got an iPhone, wireless earbuds, and a Kindle.

Help me come up with a game plan so I never have another day like this one, where my total plan for coping is listening to podcasts and watching a Netflix show that I pre-downloaded, and a little online chatting with friends.
Number of Comments
Please click Here to read the full story.
 
Other Top and Latest Questions:
Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Trump calls for credit card interest rate cap: Options for consumers if credit tightens
Bank of America boosts Micron price target, sees upside driven by tight memory supply
Trump says Microsoft will make changes to ensure consumers don't pay for power used in AI buildout
Elizabeth Warren fears workers will 'lose big' with 401(k) crypto, presses SEC chair Atkins for answers
Trump floats 1-year, 10% credit card interest rate cap — what that could mean for your money
More drivers have $1,000-plus car loan payments. Here's what buyers can expect in 2026
Does it really matter who ends up owning Warner Bros.? Media exec Tom Rogers breaks it down
Fanatics to launch sports media and entertainment studio
Salesforce releases updated Slackbot powered by Anthropic's AI model