First night of trauma staff call

You know, when you leave residency, your staff tells you not to schedule big cases right out of the block. Well, being in a critical care fellowship, I haven't been operating very much at all. So, last night I was able to take trauma staff call at the level one trauma center in San Antonio. Needless to say, I had some butthole pucker thinking of some trauma disaster that might roll in to my trauma bay. "Don't schedule big cases"....yeah right! There isn't scheduling in trauma. Well, out of 15 traumas, I took none to the OR because they were all blunt. I did have 4 acute care surgery cases however and it felt great to get back to the OR.