Friday, 04 November 2011

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

  • rochester gets bill clinton to speak at homecoming/parents' weekend? what? how come ucla can't get a commencement speaker worth jack?

    (though i still love me some ucla.)

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

  • greetings from new york.

    since my last entry, i've left my beautiful los angeles bubble and moved across the country for med school. i've also discovered that people here freak the fuck out when there's an earthquake, and that those don't happen too much in this part of the country.

    in general, my class seems really excited, but i find excited people in a closed environment to be a bit unnerving. orientation was a painfully long week of HI!what'syournamewhereareyoufromwhatdidyoustudyinundergrad? @_@ i suppose it's hard for me to share the sentiment because i know i'll be here for eight years while the majority of my class will get out in four. i've kind of been sticking with the five other kids who share my fate. i know i chose this and i know i'm really lucky, but being in it for the long haul makes it hard for me to be so bouncy. i've found the other md/phd kids (and really, even the phd kids) to be more relatable. maybe they're just more mellow.

    maybe i just miss LA so i'm grumpy, but i've found these last few weeks of med school to be rigid and unstimulating. (but thankfully, easy. i know the hard stuff is imminent...) i just can't wait to start my phd so i can take classes i want to take and get back in a lab. why? because i can't do this shit:

    [first time with a standardized patient]
    professor: middle-aged black man presents to emergency department with chest pains. what are your thoughts?
    me: well, i would ask him to more specifically localize the pain and whether/where it radiates. i'd like to know the time of onset, any accompanying symptoms, whether anything aggravates or alleviates the pain, his current meds, whether he has any cardiac risks...
    professor: ok... that's good. very clinical. but how do you feel?
    me: ...what?

    wtf is this "feeling" business? you come in with symptoms, i will try to figure out what's wrong. i don't "feel!"

Sunday, 05 June 2011

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