Inpatient medicine wards are considered much more difficult compared to our other intern year rotations, yet the privilege of getting to manage a patient’s full set of medical problems is a valuable learning opportunity. I’ve been extremely lucky to have an attending, fresh out of residency, who the entire team…
I have one more day call tomorrow, and I’ll be done with my elective on the hematology/oncology service. Its been a great month working with my colleagues on other consult services to coordinate patient care. The topic of Obamacare has become a fervent interest for many over the last few…
While I love my white coat’s pockets to carry around articles and manuals, I’ve been looking forward to having my operating room jacket for its portability. Oh yeah, and it has a built in audio port! $70 well spent. :-)
As I young child, I distinctly remember being fascinated by my dad’s career in medical technology. Watching the centrifuge separate blood components within a test tube was pretty cool, but I found mounting slides, looking through a microscope, and identifying different cell types to be way more interesting. In retrospect,…
Friday was my last day in the Progressive Care Unit and marked the conclusion of my 2nd month as a resident. I learned so much about the “art of medicine” from my attendings and was honored to work with a great bunch of colleagues.
While the Progressive Care Unit (PCU) is considered to be a harder, more time-intensive rotation, this is the first time I’ve really felt like a physician. I thoroughly enjoyed my first rotation on the renal consult service, but this rotation is way more demanding… in a good way. The PCU…
My second rotation as a resident is in the progressive care unit (PCU)… essentially a “step down” unit for the intensive care unit (PICU).
I’m officially finished with my first rotation as a resident… but I’m going to really miss everyone I worked with this past month on nephrology. Each day posed a new set of challenges in patient management, interesting cases during morning reports and conferences, and understanding how consult services interplay with…
Over the last month, I’ve picked up a lot of factoids on the renal consult service which I’d like to brain dump for future reference:
“Glom” (a term we toss around on the renal service) refers to the glomerulus, a nephron’s initial filtering component, which is often implicated in renal pathologies like multiple myeloma, amyloidosis, membranous disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranoproliferate glomerulonephritis, etc. In the workup of patients with renal disease, sometimes all the lab…