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  • 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 …

  • Peds Week 3

    In finally making my decision to go into urology there was a concern floating in the back of my head whether I really liked urology or just simply liked the residents and attendings. Being under the guidance of great pe…

  • saving a baby single footedly

    It's day 2 on the pediatrics service and this week I'm working in the outpatient clinic. It's all mostly vaccinations and running noses. This is the first day I got to actually examine and work with the kiddies one on …

  • 3 weeks left but only 1.5 weeks before my final exams. aiygo. A little over a week ago I was the first assist for the extraction of a lipoma (benign fat tumor) from this guy's back. The thing was huge! Originally t…

  • med school hazing

    So last week was my first week working in the surgical clinics. In general as med students you have the freedom to take your time to do a thorough top to bottom exam. Unfortunately, in these clinics the MO is to get p…

  • surgery week 5, orthopaedics week

    Last week I was in anesthesiology. Not really my cup o' tea. I would make a horrible anesthesiologist... I'm constantly looking over the blue drape to see what the surgeons are doing and not really paying attention to …

  • Just got home from being 36 hours on-call with only about 2 hours of sleep, if that. What's ridiculous about the whole thing is that it's illegal to work the interns more than 24 hours straight, yet as med students we'r…

  • surgery week 3, urology day 2

    This week I'm rotating through the urology department which is a surgical specialty dedicated to the male and female urinary tract, the male genital tract, and the adrenal glands. As so aptly described by my intern - it…

  • surgery clerkship, week 1

    Got home from the hospital this morning at 10am after being on-call since 8am Saturday. Was literally running on about 1 hour of sleep. The sick thing is that at the end of my call I realized I had really enjoyed mysel…

  • Horray... officially done with medicine today. =)

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