Shake down 1979, cool kids never have the time

Not much to report for the last week. With the gf here, I've been having a good ole time. Was stuck in the classroom all week last week, which totally sucked. This week we started back in the clinics.

I had my first family medicine clinic yesterday. It went well. I saw my first patient all by myself as the first person seeing her. It was pretty cool. There wasn't anything to find though because it turns out she had come in to see if she needed any vaccines; too bad, but I'll get to do more later. We saw a 4-month-old and right after a 90-year-old; quite the wide spectrum. Next week I'll be present during a walk-in clinic so that will give me a glimpse into a bit of emergency medicine. I am really interested in being a family physician, so this itsy bitsy glimpse into a family practice is actually exciting for me.

Tonight, I am shadowing in the psychiatry ER until midnight. I am obviously not alone. I'll be following a third or fourth year student and observing what the night call is like. I'll be doing this next year as a part of my psychiatry rotation. Tonight could be really interesting and hectic or it could end up being a bore, it all depends on whether or not there are people out there having psych emergencies or not.

As of now though, there's not much new to report really. I got out of bed at 11:00, said bye to the gf who went out to see her girlfriends, and I'm just passing the time trying to figure out how to rearrange my living room to accommodate the big-screen TV I inherited and waiting for my shadowing to start.

It's going to be a quiet week, but I'll post if something interesting happens.

Weekend break

I spent the weekend afar, attending a formal in the missus' honor. Good times were had, our bellies were filled, as we enjoyed our scenery and the company of others.

During the weekend, we hop over to a magazine store. I love books. Every time I get into a book store I light up. I have no idea why, I just like the idea of the possibility of so many books. Since I was a kid, I loved a good book, and I still do.

So while in this magazine store I'm like the proverbial kid in a candy store. This is the most extensive magazine store I've ever been to, even airports can't compete with this. I circle around once looking for my prey. I opt for the least medical things that I can think of that I love and I get The Hockey News and Forbes. Turns out Forbes has a piece on artificial heart pumps and how they could replace heart transplants; it's the only medical article and The Hockey News has nothing of the sort.

Fast forward to my apartment, with the gf (that's pronounced "Gee-Eff"), who's here for two weeks, where we settle in, grocery shop, etc. A big story in the news that catches my attention describing the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease that is killing children in China. I cross my fingers that 2003 doesn't repeat itself and thank my lucky stars I'm not in the ER right now.

Monday. We begin our family med rotation. I'm particularly excited because family med was the reason why I ever entered medical school. I'm nervous because I hope it turns out to be as great as I thought it would be. Turns out, we don't actually see that much family med, but we do get a little taste.

Get home from school. Dinner it up with the gf and watch House and head to bed early to be at school for 8am.