Archive for the 'Medicine' Category
One More Week…
May 31st, 2004…until this school year drags to an end.
Wait Till It’s My Turn
May 25th, 2004In preparation for my upcoming trip to Thailand and India, I had a doctor’s appointment today with a travel doctor. I made my appointment for 12 noon, so that I’d have plenty of time for the appointment and then to make it to my 1pm class.
But did I make it? No…of course not. Stupid goddamn […]
“Hands-on” Clinical Correlation
May 21st, 2004I got a first-hand view of the hand muscles we happen to be learning about in school right now. Had another one of my panic attacks last night — my biggest one yet, actually. I woke up about an hour after falling asleep, and next thing I knew I was awake, arms flinging, and my […]
Gross No More
May 14th, 2004Today was our last dissection for Gross Anatomy…and not a day too soon, either. What started out as an identifiable, intact, human-like cadaver was turned into, over 10 long and smelly months, a messy pile of small scraps. There is no piece larger than a few inches, and no body part has been untouched. […]
Hocus Pocus?
May 11th, 2004Today for ICM we went to the Emperor’s College, which is both a school and clinic that practices alternative/Eastern medicine, and it was like entering into a weird new world. Even though their goal is to heal people, the language and explanations they used were just bizarre. Heartbeats were wiry or slippery. Illness and stress […]
Final Unit
May 3rd, 2004Today was the first day of our Muskuloskeletal unit…the last unit of the year. Which means neuro is done. Which also means year one of medical school is almost done. This seems like it will be a quick and relatively easy unit, although we are tripling up on the number of gross anatomy dissections we […]
Brain Dead
April 30th, 2004Neuro is finally DONE! This has been a long and (sort of) miserable 9 weeks, and I’m not sad one bit to see this neuro unit over. As annoying and time-consuming as this unit was, however, I did find it interesting overall.
It’s funny because until now, the one topic in biology/physiology that I hated the […]
ICM
September 2nd, 2003Today was our first day of Introduction to Clinical Medicine. In ICM we get to slap on our white coats and go to a hospital once a week to practice our interviewing skills with real patients…not just standardized patients (actors).
At first I was excited because it would be a new experience, but […]
Gross
August 29th, 2003Today was the first day of Gross Anatomy, the (in)famous course all first year med students have to take. A few days ago we had lengthy lecture telling us what to do and what not to do (to or with our cadaver), and the sorts punishment we’d get if, for example, we took parts […]
Medical School: Day 1
August 11th, 2003Today was the first day of medical school. Well not quite…it was the first day we had to be present on campus, because our week of orientation started today. How was it? Pretty boring.
My day included the usual series of beginning-of-the-year administrative activities…standing in line, picking up packets, making chit-chat with other first-year students, […]