Things are changing. For me. I can't go into it here, nor should I. If you actually are around me, or talk to me, you might notice a difference. In me. I just want everyone to know that in the end, I will be fine. I will be more than fine. So don't worry about me.

This journal will no longer be public.

Thank you.

Thanks to Sonia for finding this for me. I had a very, very emotionally draining day, and this makes everything totally worth it. How she put it together that it was my favorite patient ever, I honestly don't know, but I'm glad she did.

Yesterday: Dinner and catching up with Kate ( Read more... )

The past three days have been my worst days on surgery. Perhaps my worst as a third year. I am scutted to no end, underappriacated, made to do busy work, or work that I'm not even supposed to do that the interns should be doing, or kept around for no reason. My responsibilites on the team have piled up, and I think today was the first time I heard ( Read more... )

Transplant surgery. Rounds at 0600. Scut (write template notes on ALL the patients ( Read more... )

This is a portion of what you will find if you peruse IMDB's Top Rated Movies1. The Godfather ( Read more... )

Gainesville is Best Place to Live in US. Really? I mean, like Gainesville and all, but really ( Read more... )

Surgery. The last two days were the worst. Monday we were supposed to have a laparascopic cholecystectomy (where they remove the gallbladder via several graspers and a camera without cutting the whole abdomen open), but the anatomy was weird, so they had to open her up anyway. That took 5 hours, like 10 AM to 3 PM. Yesterday we had clinic, which is ( Read more... )

Medicine is over.

Friday: Met with Dr. Fernandez (research mentor and Neurologist) who actually talked to be about psych and didn't try to convert me into an academic neurologist. I like him. Then Jeremy and I went to Best Buy: I picked up two CDs, Everclear's latest and the new one from The Alternate Routes. They opened for Everclear for their ( Read more... )

One of my interns, Justin, has a patient that he literally can't stand. She is 43 and a chronic pain patient. Her chief complaint was "needing to see a gastroenterologist." She reports she carries diagnoses of both SLE (lupus( and Sjogren's Syndrome, though she seemingly has no symptoms (and all serologies have come up negative), and we are only ( Read more... )