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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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What residents and medical students should wear in the hospital | KevinMD.com
July 14th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: attire · hospital dress · scrubs
Preclinical clinical experiences
April 14th, 2010 2 Comments
So, when I was a pre-med, I thought that the best med school for me would be one where I got lots of clinical experience in the first two years. See, in the US, the traditional medical school curriculum has very few chances for clinical exposure during the first two years. Typically, the first two [...]
Tags: clinical · clinical experiences · hospital · m-2 · pre-clinical · ranting · whining · why I hate going to the hospital right now
Aww Shucks
September 10th, 2009 1 Comment
When I started this blog, I never really expected to have more than a few readers. I mean, I don’t actively promote my site, and I’m not incredibly proactive about posting all the time or anything like that. And while I have put a lot of work into the site, I never expected that anyone [...]
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Dax Cowart
September 7th, 2009 4 Comments
In our ethics class recently, we discussed the case of Dax Cowart. His case is well known in the medical community, but I had never heard of him before–for those who aren’t familiar, here’s a quick rundown of his story. In 1973, Dax and his father were surveying some land in rural Texas that Dax [...]
Tags: Dax Cowart · ethics
Back to School…
August 11th, 2009 5 Comments
Today was the first day of second year. One might expect/hope for a little more pomp and circumstance for this momentous occasion, seeing as how more than 10% of the original M1 class either failed outright or had to repeat the first year. I mean, I didn’t expect a ceremony or anything, but it would [...]
Tags: back to school · feces · second year
Summer Time, and the Living’s (regrettably, not all that) Easy
July 30th, 2009 No Comments
So, despite all the crap that happened last year, I managed to somehow end the year in the top half of my class, and was invited to participate in the “Honors in Research” program here at my school. Basically it’s a glorified research project that is available to the top half of students. [...]
Tags: drama queens · research · summer
I’m Back!
July 28th, 2009 1 Comment
First, I’d like to apologize to anyone reading this who may have hoped for and/or expected more posts from me over my first year. It was a crazy and hectic time in my life, unfortunately. Aside from being my first year of medical school, which can be dramatic enough in its own right, my personal [...]
Tags: apologies · explanations
Med Student Syndrome
February 15th, 2009 2 Comments
Last night I woke up around three in the morning. I was sweating, my heart was beating super fast, and my blood pressure was so high that it felt like blood might shoot out of my eyes at any second.
Since we’re in the middle of the endocrine unit at school, my first reaction was that [...]
Tags: hyperchondria · med student syndrome · pheochromocytoma · why I am awesome at clinical correlation questions on tests
On Gross Lab
November 13th, 2008 4 Comments
My dissecting partner has put me off to any number of foods recently. First, when we were removing the subcutaneous fat from our cadaver’s back, he noted the fat’s resemblance to undercooked scrambled eggs. That comparison was so spot- on that I couldn’t even think of eggs without gagging for a little while. This week, [...]
Tags: Cadaver · dissecting · Gross Anatomy · M1
On Being A Patient
July 14th, 2008 2 Comments
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
-Hippocrates
Last time I updated, I mentioned that I’ve been sick recently. What I failed to mention was what happened. Well, even though it’s a little embarrassing, I’m going [...]
Tags: antibiotics · brown recluse · diarrhea · HIV/AIDS · illness · medications · MS-0 · panic attacks · side effects · spider bite · thrush
