I finished my last required clerkship yesterday. We had one procedure in the morning, followed by clinic, followed by a 20-question multiple-choice exam. The procedure was an interesting one and probably something I'll never see again. The patient was a 13-year-old girl who for three months had been having cyclic lower abdominal pain and was now ( Read more... )

Worse even than moonriddengirl and orphandani:

I am 39% Asshole/Bitch.

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1. My peds surgery narrative ( Read more... )

Forces conspired against me to prevent me from having coffee this morning. I left the house at 6:30 for a 15 minute commute, thus allowing me to stop and grab some coffee before lecture. Wrong-o. The people in this town are too stupid to get out of their own way, in a vehicle or otherwise. Grr. I wanted nothing more than a nice cup of coffee ( Read more... )

Dear Dr. P ( Read more... )

What a whirlwind of a weekend.

( The gory details. )

...until I see the Sox ( Read more... )

I spent four hours in lecture this morning. Three of the four hours were spent in the medicine auditorium, where I spent the better part of three months last year freezing my ass off in lectures. Guess what? Still colder than a sub zero freezer in there. Unfortunately, not much of it was useful ( Read more... )

In lieu of posting a fifth time yesterday, I saved this gem for today ( Read more... )

Day one of urology wasn't half-bad. Dr. M gave us a lecture on the anatomy of both male and female urogenital systems in under 30 minutes. Excellent refresher. Then it was off to the VA (the second to the last time I ever have to go there) for a lecture on benign prostatic hypertrophy (yay). After that, I rolled out to my home of late, the ( Read more... )