Well.

I've spent the last 5 weeks with my hands in people's bellies.  (You don't look at someone the same after you sweep your hand over their liver.)  I slept an average of 5 hours a night.  I got to see someone's brain, smushed as it was.  I learned a lot about human nature in sickness and death.  I saw a lot of blood, forgot to eat a few times, ( Read more... )

I'm about to start my OB/Gyn rotation at OHSU in two weeks; although we are given the option of following a midwife for a day, midwives and homebirths are not really included in our curriculum.  Frankly, being entrenched in Western Medicine for so long has had me convinced that homebirths are scary, unpredictable affairs.  Most of the MD's I've ( Read more... )

Yoga rocks! Yesterday, ( Read more... )