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Playing Catch-Up Part 2: Travelling
So, the last I mentioned what travelling I'd been doing, I'd been talking about Eilat. Well, there's a reason I didn't do much after that: I was on Paediatrics and enjoying it so much I didn't want to skip a day to go travelling ( Read more... ) -
Playing Catch-Up Part 1: Medical Stuff
Okay, it's been almost three weeks since I last posted. Sorry about that. But hopefully, that will give you some idea of how different my last two weeks of elective were ( Read more... ) -
Eilat and Petra
Ok, I'm writing this out in a cafe, on lj so as to get the maximum exposure in the 10 minutes remaining ( Read more... ) -
Moving Along
So, today was the last day of the Neurology component of my elective. I've already been in the hospital for 4 weeks (although I'm taking tomorrow off to go to Eilat and Petra over the weekend. The former is a beach resort town on the Red Sea, the latter an ancient cliff city in Jordan, best known in the Western world for being the site of the Holy ( Read more... ) -
Quick Update
Not much to report, hence the lack of postage ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it! -
Floating on, alright...
I had to actually look back to my last post to see where I got up to, and that can mainly be explained by the events of Thursday night ( Read more... ) -
Days blur with insufficient sleep - Wall 'o text
So today, even though it's theoretically only the third day of my elective, I decided to take the day off and catch up with my childhood friend, Noach, in Jerusalem. He said it was practically the only day he had off in the next eight weeks, and thus I told one of who I think are registrar-level doctors I wasn't coming in, he said ok, and I ( Read more... ) -
My First Day
So, today was my first day at the hospital. I made sure I was prepared, and I was ready and waiting at the bus-stop with all my things...and then the bus didn't stop. I forgot that Israeli buses require flags and whistles and possibly cannons to signal a need to stop. Fortunately I knew people who were going to the city where I was working, so it ( Read more... )