Yes, I’m not dead, though I am a little bit freaked out that I will be soon. Right now, I found a few minutes around midnight to write a proper entry of what second year entails. To be brief, it is VERY different from first year.
With the exception of Human Anatomy & Gross Lab, first [...]
Archive for the ‘Medicine’ Category
23 Sep
Still Hanging On
14 May
Rain on the Last Day of First Year
Despite the rain outside, everyone is in high spirit. The end of Neuroscience also means the end of first year. The word is that our class did very well on the Neuroscience Shelf Exam. I promise myself ice-cream if I can honor. So my fingers are crossed! XP
Several fun things happen this week. This shy [...]
25 Mar
Medical School NERD Scale
Genius! Test to see how much of a medical nerd you are.
Add a point to every sentence that applies to you.
You have ever said “Netter is god”. Yes
You can discuss autopsy/ anatomy over a meal. Yes
You own a 4 color pen Yes
-it just isn’t enough colors for you Yes
You use more than one color to [...]
22 Mar
Really, you live and learn
I’m the dumbest person I’ve ever met. ~_~
Thanks to my pharmacist sticking her store’s label unnecessarily over my Loratadine meds, I can’t read any of the important stuff other than take ‘1 tablet a day’. The other night, I forgot to take the medication and decided to take one almost near bedtime.
Big mistake!
It [...]
6 Dec
I See Xanthelasma
Okay, I will go straight to my doctor the minute I go home to check on my cholesterol level. This morning, I was checking out my eyes in the mirror when I noticed that something was not right. I have multiple bumps on both upper and lower eyelids, and they look like small cholesterol deposits [...]
21 Nov
No More Family Practice Doctors?
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine
(CNN) — Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
The survey, released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, which promotes better [...]
31 Oct
Burnout, Not a Surprise
Medical Student Burnout and the Challenge to Patient Care
In 2006, Dr. Liselotte N. Dyrbye and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found that nearly half of the 545 medical students they surveyed suffered from burnout, which they defined as professional distress in three domains: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low sense of personal accomplishment. Moreover, [...]
