Say I want to close this livejournal account, b/c I'm just not that into it anymore. Nothing exciting is going on in my life. I just study all day. On occasion, something will come up, like tomorrow I'm learning how to do the female's pelvic exam and the male's genitorectal exam. What a crappy Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

I am still waiting to hear back from the CDC about me doing Tuberculosis Outbreak and Surveillance work this summer. I know they've got everything. It's been two weeks now. My contact there said just wait and let the bureaucracy take its course. And I certainly need to make some money. I also need to start looking for a place to live in ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, we had an assignment to go do a nearly complete history and physical on a real patient at the Veteran's Administration. Before this, we haven't done a complete exam, and we've only done them on actors pretending to be patients. They've all been healthy. So today, after we got finished listening to the Neurology Grand Rounds, I ( Read more... )

Any time that I'm at a function that requires small talk, such as the keg party I attended on Friday night, I'm constantly asked what kind of doctor I want to be. I tell my inquisitors that I want to do infectious disease. They typically respond with, "aren't you scared that you might get ebola, smallpox, SARS, sleeping sickness, or some other ( Read more... )

All right, so I've got this club going again...Physician's for Human Rights. This week is HIV/AIDS Awareness week. Yesterday, we handed out ribbons. Today, we showed part of a movie called "A Closer Walk" and had the Christian Medical Association (CMA) co-sponsor it by serving pizza ( Read more... )

The first full week of March was absolutely crazy at school. We took our last unit exam in Gross Anatomy over the Head and Neck, which is by far the craziest part of Gross Anatomy. Your head is one complicated place. Then, we had a week to study for our Gross Anatomy final, a national standardized test known as the NBME. Then we had a few days ( Read more... )

Cholesterol (Lipid) results ( Read more... )

I have high cholesterol. A couple of weeks ago, I went to my MD for a routine checkup. She felt it was necessary to have my cholesterol checked. I told her she could if she wanted, but I wasn't really concerned since I'm a vegetarian on a naturally low cholesterol diet anyway. However, she took a non-fasting blood sample. It was 3 in the ( Read more... )

Job #1 = pretty much guaranteed. Dr. Bates, my mentor at the health department, has got his buddy at the CDC to set up a job for me as an Epidemiological Assistant in the Tuberculosis program. I would get a stipend. Application is submitted, and I just need to get my transcripts forwarded. I'd be in Atlanta for the summer ( Read more... )

Last weekend was a three day weekend, which I spent studying Respiratory Physiology. I had two breaks: dinner with friends at a Vietnamese place (where one of my friends got food poisoning) and lunch with mentor from the Health Department. I spent the rest of those three days with my nose in several physiology books. Then Tuesday morning at 9 ( Read more... )