“Stop. STOP! Hold on. I’m a pea brained surgeon. Let’s go back for a minute.” Pictured: Surgery resident receiving a consult – A dramatic rendition. I never thought I would be an angry person. I never thought I would enjoy lobster. I thought wrong on both accounts. Residency has this way of changing you in
When somebody is crashing, you don’t see anyone screaming to call the pediatric endocrinologists. They call the surgeons. Part of this passage was written by me back in August of 2017, and the latter half by me in late 2018. The verb tenses and tones will give it away. It had been a crazy two
They can always hurt you more, but they can’t stop the clock -Revised Law of the House of God (AKA probably plagiarism by me) (Image above is me stuck in a chair in our workroom. Residency is hard) To the graduates of medical schools across the nation, you wonderful newly minted doctors…on behalf of physicians
Hey everyone, Turns out when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE. I’ve been on a (long) hiatus secondary to (residency has ruined my vocabulary) being seven months into my training as a general surgery resident. I checked on my blog periodically…I was not surprised to see that frantic 4th year medical students were searching a lot
Your patients want to know that you care, or else they won’t care what you know. – Our graduation banquet speaker The first day and the last day of my medical school career captured the essence of my journey the past four years. Day one found thirty-five of us fresh-eyed, new medical students at our
Say what you want about the weather, but it’s going to be 72 and fluorescent for a majority of your residency. – A surgery resident Part 3 is upon us! It’s out of order according to the plan laid out in my first post, but I don’t care! I make the rules around here! If
Keep reading! Your education is just beginning. -Letter from my program director In the wake of Match Day bliss (or agony), it’s safe to say it was the most emotionally charged day of my 4 years in medical school. I’m still coming down from the high, despite that it was over a week and a half
“Surgeons are the jocks. You’re a jock. You’re going to be a surgeon, kid.” -The Colonel Every doctor has a story. A story about the moment the path they walked was demolished, put under construction for 6 months, and a roundabout was erected with only one exit: the life of medicine. Can you tell grew up
If you don’t do good chest compressions, you’ll enjoy a great career in PM&R! -One of my attending physicians *As in all my posts, patient details have been changed for anonymity, but the core story is true This line comes from my favorite story from medical school, which I’m going to tell shortly. While I enjoy
n=1 I want you to remember that point for the entirety of your time reading this. This application is a sample size of 1. In contrast to the massive amount of data I provided in part 1, I am but a single data point in a sea of 40,000+ applicants. Therefore, you must take my
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