Yep, I am committing myself to the psychiatric floor of the university hospital. Willingly ( Read more... )

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1. My dad's HR is going after the sorry looser insurance company and promised to kick their butts ( Read more... )

My parents came to visit over the weekend and we drove up to the Sandhills. It's amazing how beautiful they are, and how I lived in Nebraska for 7.5 years thinking that it is an incredibly ugly state. Well, the southeastern part is. The northwestern, on the other hand, is lovely. We are going to come back in late May, when the prairie is in ( Read more... )

It's a gorgeous, 41-degree day (+5 Celsius), sunny and wonderful. It just feels great not to scrape off my car in the morning. The hospital food is atrocious, so I have to fend for myself. Thankfully, everything is so cheap here - I get reverse sticker shock. I swear I spend 1/3 of what I spent in Arizona's White Mountains. I eat lunch at ( Read more... )

As I expected, my cell phone doesn't work here. However, everything else is great. The drive was good - there was some snow for about 50 miles between Lincoln and York but the other 170 miles were under sunny blue sky. The town is adorable. The coworkers seem very nice. I am living by myself in a six-bedroom house that used to belong to a ( Read more... )

Well, I am off to Broken Bow, NE tomorrow morning. I am not sure how often I will have internet access, and for how long, so if I don't reappear until February 23rd, I am still alive. I am not even sure whether my cell phone will work there because the main network in the Western Nebraska is Alltel. We will see ( Read more... )

ICU is a blend of everything - cardiology, infectious disease, trauma, overdoses... and a good lesson on how NOT to live one's life. A few stories, alternating between second and third person, follow to illustrate.

( Example 1. Wear your seatbelt. )

The bad and the Weird: I was stricken by one of those complete loss of self-confidence episodes over the weekend. I have them periodically - they are short and rare, but extremely intense. I literally cannot think straight and only worry. The good: talking about it with a few good, wise people cures it quickly. The weird: during that episode, I ( Read more... )

I am not so much angry as disappointed with wasted time and spoiled perfect run. I am getting a B- (might even be a C+, but she is "leaning" towards a B-) for Drug Information clerckship. Objectively, I do understand that I do not deserve any better, and I would be even harder on a student who did what I did (and she doesn't know how much time I ( Read more... )