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  • the countdown

    The friend statuses tell it how it is: "I can't believe the match is less than 24 hours away" "[friend] is nervous about tomorrow!!!! Good luck and prayers to everyone!" "Tomorrow is the big day... I wonder how much s…

  • For the past week I've been given this trial by fire taste of what life would be like as a urology/surgery resident. It was about 8pm on Friday when I was struck by how tired I was. For the past week my schedule had be…

  • Good-bye 3rd year, hello cherry blossoms My group and I finished our Ob/Gyn rotation surprisingly unscathed. Quite contrarily we were told that we would actually be missed. This is a feat onto it's own simply because …

  • Over the weekend went to the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Unfortunately, all the pictures I took - including the lovely cherry blossoms outside the museum have been forever lost in the ether between my memor…

  • I had seen the procedure done about 4 times before. What I remember the most was having to cut through old scar tissue once you make your incision through the skin and subcutaneous fat. If you remember what Freddie Kru…

  • Ob/Gyn Week 2

    I'll reserve my final judgement after I get my final grade, but suffice to say this is definitely not my cup of tea. Tomorrow I'm on call and hopefully I'll finally get to see a vaginal delivery instead of a c-section…

  • Congrats are in order - residency and bathrooms

    Congrats to all my 4th year medical school friends who found out today where they'll be doing their residencies! I guess now everyone will rightfully be in vacation mode until July when residency starts. Enjoy it now. …

  • psych run down

    Final couple of hours left before I sit down to my psych written exam. Admittedly even the chairman of the dept said that the written exam was easy - "you'll get an A if you read any textbook on psych, you'll get a B if…

  • the crazy patient who loses his mind

    On the unit we have this paranoid schizophrenic patient, McCrazy, who has a delusion that his father hates him and thinks that he's gay. Hence the reason he's admitted... it's all one big conspiracy to keep him locked u…

  • scary

    The past couple of days I've been preoccupied with scheduling my 4th year of medical school. It's slow going only because I'm trying to coordinate with several different hospitals all of whom have different timelines th…

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