So I'm on call tonight, the first real call I've had since I've started my ortho rotation at Hahnemann. At least I'm on with the most cynical resident, who's a 4th year, and he doesn't want to be here even more than me. Thankfully, he's probably only going to call me for reductions and surgeries, which is cool. I hate being called at 2:30 for a ( Read more... )

So this week is the first week back at the grind, or more specifically, my first week on my first four week rotation in orthopedics. Things that I have found out that I need to learn ( Read more... )

I've moved my journal for the updating for my mission trip to http://www.livejournal.com/users/mexicodoc/

please go check it out if you're interested in reading more about my missions in TX and Mexico.

So this will be the short update. On Sat., Mexico was awesome. Sun., church was interesting. Mon. we went to the waterpark and I got sunburned. Yesterday we had a good experience at a new site in TX. Today we're off to mexico after lunch. I'll write more when I get back tonight.

For the last week and a half, I have been in Harlingen, TX and Matamoros, Mexico. Just look at your map of the world and find the botom tip on Texas and that's where I am. I'm currently working for a program called the Summer Medical Institute for the remainder of July. It's a medical missions program with the emphasis being on running clinics ( Read more... )

so it's like 11:13am and I'm sitting in Borders Books b/c I'm supposed to be studying for my boards, which are next Wed. So I'm going nuts b/c I can't study anymore. I'm tired, I'm mentally burned out after studying for my internal medicine exam (that I missed honors in because of 2 points...did I mention that some of my friends studied a ( Read more... )

I have to write my personal statement about why I'm going to do orthopedics. ANyone got any great ideas about why I want to spend the next 6 years of my life waking up at 3:30am?

OK, I have to take my finals for internal medicine in a week and a half, my step 2 of my national medicine boards on June 30th, and I'm WAY behind in studying for both. It's not that I haven't been studying. I just haven't been making as much progress as I could be. I have honor medicine (next to impossible), and score 20 points higher on my ( Read more... )

OH MY GOSH I'M GOING TO LOSE IT ( Read more... )

so these days I've been lost in the world of OBGYN. Seeing babies delivered, doing pelvic exams, etc. Let me tell you--I have discovered that this is DEFINATELY NOT the place for me to pend any more of my life than I have to. I don't really get that warm fuzzy feeling with deliveries, and if I have to do one more pelvic exam on a 16yo that has ( Read more... )