GROSS.
“one size fits all” latex gloves are a bad idea, especially if your hands are quite small, like mine. see, gloves stretch out when they get warm (from your hands) and wet (from…whatever you’re wearing...
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We lost one of our own this week. He was probably the funniest guy in our class. Made himself the butt of all his own jokes, and you couldn’t help but feel comfortable around him. He was very vocal...
View ArticleI Dreamed a Dream
Inspired by the absolute-opposite-of-inspiring slog that is boards exam prep, and in the vein of PhD Comic’s “Les (Really!) Miserables“, I give you: “A Medical Student Dreamed a Dream.” There was a...
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…and the world is new again.
Life around here has been feeling a bit like this… …and this… …oh, this too… …and oh yeah, can’t forget this. Sorry. Thanks to an amazingly-forgiving schedule, I was able to push my boards exam back...
View ArticleT-14 Days
I AM SO SICK OF STUDYING. The past month has made all the time I spent “working hard” during medical school look like warm-up laps, and I’ve been seriously questioning how I got through undergrad with...
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Well, that happened.
I have discovered (empirical studies, sample size = 1) that there is nothing worse for a person with intractable tinnitus (ears ringing) than sitting in a room full of two dozen computers in absolute...
View ArticleI love my job.
There are two little girls in the world tonight two perfect, if bitty, twin sisters crying, breathing, cooing, eating being adored by proud parents and big sisters. They were not here twelve hours ago,...
View ArticleJust another day in the 707…
Most people would file a complaint, leave a scathing note, or vent indiscriminately at the first person to walk in if they think they’ve been waiting longer than their hard-earned insurance premiums,...
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[Alternatively titled: The First Time I Did Something That Mattered, Even A Little Bit, In The OR] There is a woman at our hospital recovering with a darling little boy, and my very own handiwork...
View ArticleTake Two
Remember when, a year ago (and yet only four posts back), I took boards? Yeah, doing it again, just a few days away. (And there will be a third in the future, at some point.) Supposedly I know more...
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