It’s fair to say that most people consider newborn babies to be exceptionally cute… but why is that? Today on rounds my neonatology attending explained the human psyche’s perception of what is “adorable.”

Spending a week doing pediatric EM was pretty eye-opening. I never got used to the sight of patients whose feet barely reached the midpoint of the stretcher being brought in for trauma, anaphylaxis, etc. I had a fantastic team of MS2s and enjoyed many of the lectures given by our teaching fellows, namely working up […]

I received an inquiry yesterday questioning the very notion of entering medicine.

One week just wasn’t enough time in pedi GI, but I definitely learned a lot! The team dynamic was incredibly conducive towards teaching, and although rounding was a little longer, discussing each patient in depth made it worth the time.

Today was the first day of my last core rotation in medical school – pediatrics! I’ll be spending most of the two months at the largest pediatric hospital in the country – Texas Children’s Hospital. After the routine orientation/badging this morning, the group split into our respective services. For me, this is pediatric gastroenterology for […]

I was contacted by an associate at MedicalTranscription.net with regards to an image she and her team created about the black market for organs. Here’s the incredibly eye-opening animated graphic:

Friday afternoon I had the privilege of interacting with prospective Rice-Baylor program candidates and their parents. One of the topics that came up was the single most important consideration in picking a medical school. US News & World Report Rankings, match lists, and class statistics (GPA/MCAT scores) are commonly cited as assessments in determining how “good” […]

I’m continuing to enjoy an incredible breadth of cases in neurosurgery – deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s, the orbitozygomatic approach for a middle fossa tumor, ventricular explorations, and laminectomies are some of the latest cases I scrubbed into. With only a week left before two months of pediatrics, I’m hoping to continue seeing the beautiful […]

The first day of any new rotation is always tough, but today was utterly painful from a logistics standpoint. We started rounding at 5:30am, but instead of being able to reset my password for computer access, I had to wait till later in the morning to redo all the paperwork I did back in October […]

Two weeks of anesthesiology certainly flew by, and given my interaction with the residents and the nature of the field, I’m really considering it as a career. I should have my USMLE Step 1 scores back within the next two weeks, so that’ll definitely play a role in deciding what I apply for this fall, […]