Had a presentation today. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Everything. Yes, that too ( Read more... )

Came across a thing that is something to think about. There is same sex female couple who want to utilize donor sperm to make an offspring. Now for the insurance paperwork there are questions like the following. Have you and your partner been having unprotected sex for more than one calendar year? Have you or your partner had children with any ( Read more... )

8 C-sections, including twins =9 C section babies. 7 Vaginal births. 16 total babies. Still haven't pulled one out of a vagina, that is my goal for the next week ( Read more... )

Saturday I shall spend 24 hours trying to catch a baby. I have never seen a birth in person. We'll see how this goes...I'm kind of excited. I remembered that I love gross things the best and baby catching is hopefully less chit-chatting while I twiddle my thumbs and more doing.

I feel like I'm learning things. I view this positively although it's probably a sign that I don't already know things. Like in pediatrics I learned things because I don't know much about small people. In general medicine I didn't know things and I didn't learn many things because they are too busy to teach there. In surgery I felt good because I ( Read more... )

So surgery ended by me watching a CABG and then having several traumas to attend to, then rounding the next morning and leaving by 10am. I had about three cups of coffee and had All Of The Energy, which I promptly used to fall over and take a nap, until 6pm or so. Monday I started Psychiatry which has a much more manageable schedule of 7:30-5. I ( Read more... )

My days are variable in that I'm tired, or depressed or excited at various points. I have the privilege of doing things now. I have sutured incisions and stabled a big abdominal wound and the surgeon let me drive the camera for the guy that got his kidney out. Here is how that goes. They make an incision and then put in a port with a plastic bag ( Read more... )

Supernonamegirl's made me reflect on my relationship with my sisters and feel very lucky. In the year that shall not be named my older sister drove all the way to Peoria and spent the weekend and it was my favorite weekend of the entire year. I found out cool things to do in Peoria ( Read more... )

I had to change out of my depression jeans last night because they were too tight. I'm recovered? And should consider eating some fewer calories? I had four weeks of peds and one week of internal med. Three more weeks of that, hopefully it will pick up now that I know my way around a little. Then on to interesting things: Surgery, Psych, and Ob Gyn ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I start my peds rotation. I will have three weeks of hospitalized kids and one week of newborns and I will find out when tomorrow. I during orientation I oscillated between being really excited and being really terrified that I will be an idiot who can barely identify the "this way up" end of a baby. I should have gotten all the books but ( Read more... )