MS2
Thoughts about transitioning from the basic to clinical sciences in my second year of medical school
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Second Year of Medical School in Retrospect
This is my last post as a second-year medical student (MS2). 😯 The first six months were spent completing the…
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Finished With Psychiatry
The consult/liaison psychiatry service at Ben Taub was pretty busy through June, but I worked well with my three incredibly…
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Stiff Person Syndrome
So I was perusing through some charts today when I came across an interesting problem list. 1.) HTN (high blood…
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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Illness
Tomorrow afternoon, the last 20% of my psychiatry rotation’s grade will be determined based on my ability to watch a…
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How To Properly Utilize A Medical Interpreter
I took four years of Spanish in high school and consider myself to be more-than-conversational in the language, but when…
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Last Day of Psych at the VA
At 4:45pm on Friday afternoon, I left the VA after four works of working in the outpatient psych clinic. I…
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Insomnia and Sleep Hygiene
Sleep changes go hand in hand with common psychiatric conditions like depression and mania, but before jumping to drugs to…
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Depressive Disorders
Depression is the most common psych condition I’ve come across during my time at the Veterans Affairs hospital. It permeates…
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Lessons from a Psych Patient
Today I had the esteemed privilege of interviewing a veteran in the psych clinic. I also had the rare experience…
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Electroconvulsive Therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is routinely used to treat refractory depression and catatonia, especially in the elderly where pharmacotherapy could result…
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