Early enough in the morning I'm still at home, asleep...
Me: "Hello, WinslowPringle with Surgery, returning a page."
Nurse: "Hello, are you taking care of Patient X in room Y?"
Me: "Not any more, we were consulted but signed off a few days ago."
Nurse: "Oh. Well, I saw your name in his chart."
Me: "Yes, I saw him a few days ago, but not today. We were consulted for [elective surgical procedure P], but didn't due to [host of risks and contraindications]."
Nurse: "I was looking for who to call, and I saw your name in his chart."
Me: "I'm not taking care of this patient."
Nurse: "Oh. Well. But you had seen him."
Me (internal sigh): "What are your concerns?"
Nurse: "He just flipped into a fib with RVR. Would you like me to start an amio drip?"
Me: "You'll need to call his admitting team - he's admitted to Internal Medicine. I'm a general surgery resident and I haven't seen him recently and we aren't going to operate on him, and haven't recently operated on him."
Nurse: "Do you know who the Internal Medicine attending on him is?"
Me: "No. You'll have to look in his chart. I'm not at a computer right now."
Nurse: "Oh. Ok."
(There is an Internal Medicine HP, daily Internal Medicine progress notes, all the orders are from Internal Medicine, the Internal Medicine attending is listed under 'calls to' order as well as the 'admit' order, and in the right upper screen of the patient's EMR...My name was on two progress notes and zero orders....)