It's been more than 3 years since I updated.  Incredible how many of these old topics/ people are now history. I can still vividly remember them like it was yesterday. (Laughing and being retarded, good times )

Look at that emo pose up there in the userpic ^ that's me. in a size small track jacket! from urban outfitters.  Anyway I'm going back to ( Read more... )

I chatted with the Clinical Director, and his cohorts, helpful ,they said they were going to give me a certificate saying i did 500 hours volunteer hours when i did only 200? if even. Well what they say is one thing , so i'll follow up on it Friday? I dunno. I have to ask some question about the Master Program. I'm trying to get my AP teacher to ( Read more... )

Well I didnt do much again , i missed an amputation yesterday, I arrived at the Hospital promptly at 6:15 AM and was greeted by Mr.Forsberg who pretty runs the clinical operations of the hospital, we chatted and he agreed to personalized some recommendation letters for me,pending on where i make my decision (school wise) , I still have a year of ( Read more... )

It's been the same old, nothing really new , i missed out on the 20th day, i heard there was a leg amputation ,the last student that i met and started with is leaving today, she taught me a whole lot ,blah i guess i'll miss her for now =( Today 2 of the medical students decided to show me how to draw blood from veins, it was pretty cool! Oh and i ( Read more... )

I learned a bunch , got a phone number from a student leaving this week, looked into 3 other schools, I manage to get both the hospital's clinical director of the hospital and my old Anatomy and Professor teacher attentions for future recommendation letters for the program i'm applying for, which is pretty sweet. Today i just sat around and chatted ( Read more... )

I learned about Hematology, anion gaps, and t proteins (troponin). But i don't really recall anything that really stood out for me.
I saw a labroscoptic tubial ligation which i think and understand it to be the womans fallopian tube getting truncated or tied so you can be catholic and not worry about a dozen kids.
Read about it here! http://www. ( Read more... )

I saw 3 cases today ( Read more... )

The day began with a change of a packing strip on an 81 year female patient, her stool was green and watery from bilius fluids and what not, anyway, i found out that the packing strips were used for packing wound and allowing fluids to drain ,and with each replacement comes dead necrotic tissues. The wound is left open and so further access to the ( Read more... )

I found what i needed on this website over here :

http://www.burnsurgery.org/Modules/BurnWound/rationale/cutaneous/index_healing.htm
First Intention (Primary Healing):
The process whereby an incision or open wound is immediately closed (usually elective surgery incision).

Second Intention (Secondary Healing):
The process whereby an open wound ( Read more... )

I ambitiously waited for my superiors to come in and show me the rounds for today, on a bad note,my status was shoved down quite a bit because there were the new medical students that i first introduced in my entry yesterday,long story short, they're fresh out of school and their currrently on their first rotation and needed all the guidance they ( Read more... )