My last day of L&D Night Week was a roller coaster – I got to vaginally deliver identical twins, scrubbed in on a straightforward tubal ligation, humiliated myself in front of the chief resident of anesthesiology, did another vaginal delivery and proceeded to help with triaging patients in OB Intake (OBI). Over the 14+ hours […]
My First Delivery
Published: 7 months, 1 week ago (Jul 6, 2011) in OB/GYNTags: labor, pregnancy · 0 Comments
“Fuerte, fuerte, FUERTE!” After a few minutes of coaching the mother, a new life had, quite literally, fallen into my hands.
First Day of OB/Gyn
Published: 7 months, 1 week ago (Jul 5, 2011) in OB/GYNTags: schedule · 0 Comments
It’s about 5:10 pm, and I’m sitting in a vacant lecture hall writing this post. I woke up at 5am and had orientation from 7:30am to 3:45pm. Come to find out, I start this rotation on labor and delivery (L&D) nights and will be here till 5am tomorrow morning only to go home and come […]
“Oh no! I only have one month of summer break left!?!” *insert some additional whining here* I had this realization multiple times in grade school around this time of the year. Now with only two weeks of break in total, I find myself whining about having “only 35 hours of break left.”
ENT Resident Research Day 2011
Published: 7 months, 2 weeks ago (Jun 27, 2011) in MS3Tags: ent, research · 0 Comments
Last Friday, several members of the ENT-erest group attended the ENT Resident Research Day at the Methodist Hospital – Baylor Med Neurosensory Center. There were eight 10-15 minute presentations (4 basic science, 4 clinical) done by the residents followed up by a fantastic lecture on “outcomes research” by a distinguished guest speaker.
Second Year of Medical School in Retrospect
Published: 7 months, 2 weeks ago (Jun 25, 2011) in MS2Tags: advice · 3 Comments
This is my last post as a second year medical student (MS2). The first six months were spent completing the basic sciences, but over the last six months, I’ve finished rotations in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry while also doing ENT research in April. I wanted to write a post summarizing the many things I learned […]
Finished With Psychiatry
Published: 7 months, 2 weeks ago (Jun 23, 2011) in PsychiatryTags: btgh, psychiatry · 0 Comments
The consult/liason psychiatry service at Ben Taub was pretty busy through June, but I worked well with my three incredibly awesome teammates to get the job done. The oral exam last Thursday was a friendly reminder of how short a 30 minute presentation really is – I felt like I had spoken five minutes, looked […]
Stiff Person Syndrome
Published: 7 months, 3 weeks ago (Jun 15, 2011) in MS2Tags: neurology · 0 Comments
So I was perusing through some charts today when I came across an interesting problem list.
The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Illness
Published: 7 months, 3 weeks ago (Jun 15, 2011) in PsychiatryTags: exam, shelf · 0 Comments
Tomorrow afternoon, the last 20% of my psychiatry rotation’s grade will be determined based on my ability to watch a 30 minute videotaped patient encounter, prepare a presentation, and then orally deliver the case with an accurate differential diagnosis and treatment plan.
How To Properly Use A Medical Translator
Published: 8 months ago (Jun 11, 2011) in MS2Tags: patient · 1 Comment
I took four years of Spanish in high school and consider myself to be more-than-conversational in the language, but when it comes to especially emotional topics like discussing abuse or suicidal ideations, I prefer to use a translator to ensure that I word everything appropriately.
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