Back from interview, which was a nice one-day respite from the usual cycle of admits and discharges. It turned out that this was also the day my parents and sister were coming to Philadelphia to send her on a train to DC, so we had a nice post-interview lunch before I hopped the plane back to Pgh ( Read more... )

Clearly, I have been Busy, judging from how little I've been posting this month. Not sure what I've been Busy with, but I guess it's just endless loops of the work-move-sleep cycle. Things are pretty much packed up for the impending move, which is good, 'cuz I don't have much free time between now and then. I leave on Tuesday for the first-stage ( Read more... )

My internet connection, monitor, Netflix subscription, and newspaper subscription now all believe I live at jennifermuppet's address. I think this may mean I've officially moved, regardless of where the rest of the Stuff is.

In other news, family medicine still going well. Definitely light work compared to other inpatient services. However, I have run into a ( Read more... )

First night of call as Family Medicine acting intern. One page for increasing a pt's oxycodone dose, one for Maalox, one for adjusting an insulin dose, one for a lab value that I'd been waiting for (good nurse!), and one for a patient who needed preop labs ordered. Oh, and did I know those preop labs were "MD draw only"? On the patient with active ( Read more... )

In other news, and none too soon given the heck I'm going through with the water heater: I'm moving. Specifically, in order to cut costs and save up $$ for my residency interview travel and the Wedding, Jennifer and I are consolidating our places and putting Stuff (mostly my Stuff) into storage ( Read more... )

i can has hot water!
yay!

(Now let's see how much it ends up costing me...)

Yesterday, the plumbers were scheduled to come in the afternoon, so I drove to work in order to be able to leave quickly and meet them. Noticed the car was handling funny. At a stop light, found out why -- flat tire. Given the idiotic degree to which every tire shop in the world tightens lug nuts, took an hour to get the damn thing off and changed ( Read more... )

You may recall my water heater breaking perhaps 1.5 weeks ago. I still do not have a water heater.
Until today, I was also unable to use *any* water in my apartment. Let's review.
( The saga begins... )

More career musings, posted outsde the friends-lock mainly so that it can be indexed and maybe
read by a future job-seeker. Feel free to ignore.

I just got back this week from the "Bridge to BCG" workshop run by the Boston
Consulting Group, essentially their answer to last summer's Insight Healthcare adventure with
McKinsey & Co.. It was a good ( Read more... )

(minimal internets due to not being able to live in my apt and being on call all wknd. more later. see below ( Read more... )