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Entries from July 14th, 2010

What residents and medical students should wear in the hospital | KevinMD.com

July 14th, 2010 2 Comments

This article just popped up on my RSS reader: What residents and medical students should wear in the hospital | KevinMD.com.
From the article:
5. Scrubs are for the hospital not for home. As a New York Times article pointed out, no one wants to sit next to someone on the subway wearing scrubs, particularly those with uncharacterizable stains [...]

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First week of third year–first impressions

July 11th, 2010 1 Comment

Go ahead and call for the the wahmbulance now because I’m about to whine for a minute.
So far third year has been nothing like I had imagined. Right now I’m rotating through a bunch of Internal Medicine subspecialty clinics and basically shadowing doctors for half a day. I had this impression of third [...]

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Third Year, Day 1

July 7th, 2010 2 Comments

First day of third year right now. Registration and orientation was yesterday. Among the various official business I took care of yesterday, I received a packet with my assignments for this morning printed on a green piece of paper. The paper said to be at the hospital at 8am. I’ve known [...]

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