I’ve walked through the SICU on my core rotations, but it wasn’t until this week that I realized how ill some of the patients really are. Its been fun working with the new interns to create plans for challenging patients from a systems-based approach. Fortunately, our census has been low,…
Around 3:45pm yesterday afternoon, I officially finished my OB/Gyn rotation. I felt very prepared after having read Case Files, uWise, Boards & Wards, and supplementing BluePrints for additional clarification, but like all shelf exams, I narrowed down a bunch of questions to two choices. Bleh, hopefully I managed to do…
The consult/liaison 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…
Yesterday marked the end of my first month of clinics – 21 amazing days of internal medicine at Ben Taub. In February, I’ll be at St. Luke’s working on a consult service to be determined Monday. We were allowed to “request” a service (general medicine, heme-onc, infectious disease, etc.) ahead…