I just got back from Portland.  I went to a conference out there for student-run free-clinics.  There is so much to do now!  Our clinic has run very well for the past 15 years, but it really hasn't changed much in that time.  We're still an acute care clinic whose goal is to transition people into the resources provided by the community.  From ( Read more... )

I start work again on Monday, and I have to say, I'm actually looking forward to it.  Six weeks, and I'm ready for a little more routine.  Especially a routine that doesn't start until 9 in the morning, and which gives me a lunch break to do choreography for the musical.

I made a WONDERFUL batch of cookies over the Christmas break.  I got a recipe ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a long time, it seems ( Read more... )

It's been nearly a year since I've done any serious writing, and I'm really missing it. Especially since I've had some time to do actual reading for fun lately, and I've been starting "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," and listening to Artimis Fowel and The Golden Compass (I figured if I was going to talk about it intelligently, I'd better read ( Read more... )

Once again, I find myself mere hours away from a vacation, and my brain has already left the building. Yesterday I tried tutoring for two hours on embryology, and had to apologize profusely for basically just sitting there like a lump and letting him learn it himself. Today at work I was semi-capped (I have admitted six patients, but one is ( Read more... )

 My ego took a bruising today.  I read through the review the first years gave about me as a TA.  I took the criticisms kind of hard the first time I read through them, I have to admit.  One said I seemed just as confused as the students about the anatomy.  Others said I gave them wrong information and never looked up the right answers.  Many of ( Read more... )

 I hate these days.  I thought, or I hoped, I was past them.  You know those days.  When you feel fat and friendless and completely impotent in everything you do.  Mostly I think I've just been bored.  I don't really have any motivation to study.  I need to memorize lines, but that's boring to just sit down and do.  I need to work on the yearbook, ( Read more... )

 Today I started my next rotation today, at the Student Health Care Center.  My attending is a family medicine doctor.  He's pretty quiet, but nice.  I get to see patients on my own, and write my own notes that he fiddles with but essentially keeps intact, which is nice.  It's like a fun, fluffy clinic.  Relatively healthy patients, coming in with ( Read more... )

 So just a couple of things.  Scrubs usually gets things right, but the target lesion on Lyme disease is only present something like 30% of the time.  There is actually a blood test for it, and that would be a better use of time instead of writing off the disease after a skin search failed to reveal a tick bite ( Read more... )

 I love how the news articles are referring to "canny" fans who guessed Dumbledore was in love with Grindewald.  Honestly!  Every single possible pairing has been explored in fan fiction.  That the slashers actually got one ship is less an insightful conclusion and more a statistical likelihood.  Humph ( Read more... )