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The best part about working over the weekend (hah, what a grown-up thing to say) is that parking is easy, there aren't any conferences to pause workflow, and I have an excuse to eat...

Day 2 of residency was way more stressful than the first. After morning report, rounds, and noon lecture, I was left alone to run the renal service with an awesome med student. Our attending...

I'm currently writing this post while sprawled on my bed in a haze. My first day of residency is over, and while it wasn't bad, introducing myself as "Dr. Kumar" to patients just sounds......

Yesterday evening... after admittedly pulling an all-nighter to cram for the departmental exam... I finished my neurology rotation. Between Thanksgiving Break, no weekend responsibilities, and the rotation being only a month long, I only...

Neurology has gone by so quickly! Our hours are great, we don't work on weekends, and a lot of each day is spent traveling to and from lectures/conferences at the main campus. After morning...

It's the rotation that I was waiting for since January... the three months which would show me whether or not the career I wanted to pursue coming into medical school was really my best...

At 4:45pm on Friday afternoon, I left the VA after four works of working in the outpatient psych clinic. I was privileged to have an extremely insightful and approachable attending who motivated me to...

For the next two months, I'll be hearing the most intimate details of my patients' lives. I will come across those who have lost their grip on reality, those in a situation so dire...