The first week

My first week at Mount Sinai Medical center was quite interesting. The day of my internship reminded me about school, seeing as I had to wake up at 5 a.m. and it started at 8 a.m. After receiving my two $3.25 meal vouchers I reported to my work site department, the Emergency Room. The doors to the actual emergency room, like most doorways in the hospital can only be opened by the swipe of an authorized card from an employee, sadly my card was not yet authorized so I had to ask the main door attendants for entry. In the emergency room there are open rooms, closed rooms, secluded rooms and wide hallways. After meeting with my mentor, I was tasked with copying discharge papers telling patients that if they are surveyed about the service in Mt. Sinai, to say they were "Very Satisfied" with the service. 100 copies of 4 sheets of paper in English and 100 copies of 4 sheets of paper in Spanish. After the copies were done copying I had to separate them and place each in its own individual folder. This activity took a considerable amount of time, and most of my first day and after I was finished I went to lunch. They served a wide variety of food, though the prices were a bit high, it was a good thing we had those vouchers, or I would have been paying a steep price every day. After my lunch, things at the emergency room really picked up; there were people being wheeled in by gurney. I also got a chance to see what happened to those people.