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Weekly posts looking into the life of a medical student as he journeys from undergrad to physician.
2014-03-24 18:41
While it's been some time since my last post here, this blog has been on hold during the busy years of residency. I could not be happier with my specialty, location and people I get to… Read More
2012-10-10 20:32
After the second year of medical school, students take the first of their board examinations, then a second board exam during the third year. A clinical patient encounter accompanies the sec… Read More
2012-08-21 06:00
More than 20 years of working towards a life dream now fulfilled, I have shared my medical school experience for four years; week by week, dose by dose, the journey has been a roller coaster… Read More
2012-08-16 22:17
It is with great pleasure that I announce a nomination recently received for 2012's most fascinating student blog. Just being among the few student blogs on the internet has been quite a thr… Read More
2012-05-28 14:00
Once again, with my fourth year of medical school completed, it is time for me to break out the inner nerd and share the pictograph of my numerical note-taking. The chart above representing… Read More
2012-05-20 23:32
From the bowels of the LVH (Las Vegas Hotel) at the head of the ballroom, my classmates and I have gathered to be hooded doctors of osteopathic medicine. Its official, we are now doctors!!!… Read More
2012-05-20 15:45
This post comes as another milestone arrives. I wasn't certain if I wanted this to be my last post as a medical student or the first as a physician. In the end, I think this entire day is in… Read More
2012-05-14 17:33
Rotations are finished. Residency is on the horizon. I am basking in the space between...vacation-land. Although there is plenty to do in preparation for the next steps, this time is just as… Read More
2012-05-06 14:00
While it seems that doctors are making buckets of money, lawyers have found a way to change this in concert with the political movers and shakers who are following suit. Many veteran physici… Read More
2012-04-29 23:15
That bitter-sweet time came at three o'clock in the morning. I had finished my last shift in the emergency department, in medical school, and in Las Vegas. My last official function as a med… Read More
2012-04-22 20:56
This week I became fascinated again with the basic sciences, this time through physics and chemistry. The department had a Wood's lamp easily accessible and I had a urine specimen readied fo… Read More
2012-04-15 21:57
Blame it on the type A personality or simply a mild case of obsessive-compulsive character, but my fourth year of medical school has been so busy I needed a way to organize my thoughts and t… Read More
2012-04-09 05:19
Having spent most of my time in civilian hospitals and clinical settings, it was quite the change this month when I started my last medical school rotation in a military-run facility. Govern… Read More
2012-04-02 02:18
It's in the books. There is something fascinating when you actually get to see a "textbook" case in the clinic. Before medical school, I would have thought disease states followed some text… Read More
2012-03-25 20:47
Likely due to language disparities, my less-than-five-year-old patient sat quietly on the examination table patiently waiting for me to start. She was smart and well-versed in the way of the… Read More
2012-03-19 03:57
Unless you work in an operating room, the routine of what to expect may be rather frightening and foreign. The anesthesiologist makes sure patients fall asleep and somewhere between the indu… Read More
2012-03-11 21:51
Every once in a while, funny things happen. This time, brilliantly dressed man, tall in stature with half a head of blue hair paced on the stage recanting memories from his career as a medic… Read More
2012-03-04 14:00
Guest post from Deanne Hicks, Medical Billing and Coding InstructorGreetings! My name is Deanne Hicks and I have worked in the Health Information Technology field as a certified coder for th… Read More
2012-02-26 14:00
This appears to be a very clean and tidy hospital room, ready for the next patient to fill its bed and utilize its healing equipment. I happened to come across it in the early morning hours… Read More
2012-02-19 23:29
Sleeping the night before was not as hard as I expected it to be, but the day of the match results (February 13th) I woke up early. Before I even made it out of bed, the email shown here gre… Read More
2012-02-12 20:30
One of the perks of emergency medicine, OBGYN and surgical rotations is wearing scrubs to work. Between these specialties and vacation it has been a year since I last wore a dress shirt and… Read More
2012-02-06 07:44
Running towards the finish line, this blog post comes as the 200th, a point that seemed so far away when I hit 100 and even farther when I started writing here. As medical school comes to an… Read More
2012-01-29 14:00
Guest post from Dr. Joseph Mazzei, D.O., Medical Director, BodyLogicMD of ChicagoInterviewing for residency programs can be a pressure-packed, daunting task. Try to take a deep breath… Read More
2012-01-22 19:32
Eat, sleep, and breath medicine. That's how medical school is for so many who live through it. We get so caught up in the world of bacteria and mutant cells that we forget to live a little… Read More
2012-01-16 04:33
Returning home to Las Vegas after touring the country means it's time to go back to rotations as usual. Fully expecting to hit some of the core specialties, I was surprised when I was assign… Read More
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