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As a third year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), my posts are intended to educate others and share my experiences from this incredible journey without violating patient privacy. These blurbs are not to serve as a replacement for recommendations provided by licensed physicians under any circumstance nor do they represent the opinions of BCM and its affiliated institutions. Please contact me with any questions or concerns, and thanks for stopping by!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my first week of pediatric surgery, it’s my inability to deal with the fact that young children are capable of such horrible illnesses. It disgusts me to think that there are “healthy” individuals out there who practice high risk behaviors on a daily basis (binge drinking, illicit drug use, […]
Here’s a specimen from one of the pediatric surgical cases I saw this week. I won’t give any background information except that it was taken from a prepubescent female after atypical findings on histology.
Pediatric surgery is shaping up to be an excellent two weeks of variety and choice. Sure, we have to get in around 5:30 each morning to collect vitals on our 35+ patients, but after that, we’re free to see whatever procedures we want. The lounges are chock full of coffee, chips, bagels, nuts, beverages, and […]
Unilateral facial pain with some subjective fevers, diaphoresis, and numbness/tingling in the same region. “So what medications are you taking?” I noticed the disproportionate opening of his mouth as he answered.” While we joked about random current events, I thought I saw a discrepancy in his eyelid elevation. And then it hit me. ”Sir, close both […]
T-minus two hours till the E.R. portion of this surgery rotation is over. I worked yesterday 7a-7p and had the morning/afternoon to finish reading the NMS Surgery Casebook today, but being ever-so-absent-minded, I left the book at Ben Taub. Instead, I spent the day playing computer games. After all, there is nothing else I could […]
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