So today was my last day as the junior resident on the trauma surgery service. I can't believe it's been 3 months since I was an intern and that I not only survived the trauma rotation I freakin' thrived on it. When I met with my mentor last year and she suggested trauma as a possible career choice I thought to myself "not in 10 million years" but ( Read more... )

Yay...Colin Firth has a new movie coming out AND it's British!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/easyvirtue/

How is it that I missed the announcement that the 3rd encyclical is coming out soon???? (cue angels singing)

Caritas in Veritate, due to be released in April, yay!

Day 4 in Argentina and already it feels like I have been away forever. My Mom and I flew into Buenos Aires where I ahd purposefully not scheduled much time (cities not being my favorite place to vacation and having already seen all the big sites on a previous trip). Our hostel was perfect and we did a few things that are classic BA so can´t be ( Read more... )

Today we had our first live wet lab. Me and a bunch of other interns walked into the room and there are these two cute little pigs intubated and asleep on the tables. They were really cute! The lab was called “Skin incisions and port insertion” as in placing the ports needed for laparoscopic surgery which didn’t really sound that interesting…but ( Read more... )

Today I cut off toes.  Well one toe and half a toe. It is amazing how going to the operating room, even for little things like toe amputations is amazingly satisfying ( Read more... )

 So I just went to the pre-graduation reception. It's official, the only thing I have left to do is actually graduate. I cannot believe it, it seems like it was just yesterday that I was sitting in first year orientation being told by the fourth years that med school goes really quickly. "Easy for you to say" is what I was thinking at the time, but ( Read more... )

So I have't really had time to update this month because of being in South America but I thought I'd take a quick minute because I miss you guys to let you know what I've been up to ( Read more... )

It's hour 23 and I still have at least 5 more hours before I can go home, which will put me just under the 30 hour cut off rule ( Read more... )

 I am so sad that today is the last day of my cardiothoracic surgery rotation. It went way to fast and when I think about how I could have been doing this for a month instead of cardiology consults for the other two weeks, which was really not helpful, I am even more sad ( Read more... )