While it's been some time since my last post here, this blog has been on hold during the busy years of residency. I could not be happier with my specialty, location and people I get to work with every day. Showcased in the video above is my residency pr...
After the second year of medical school, students take the first of their board examinations, then a second board exam during the third year. A clinical patient encounter accompanies the second exam and fourth year is full of interviews which prove test e...
More than 20 years of working towards a life dream now fulfilled, I have shared my medical school experience for four years; week by week, dose by dose, the journey has been a roller coaster of fascination. Recently nominated as one of the most fascinatin...
It is with great pleasure that I announce a nomination recently received for 2012's most fascinating student blog. Just being among the few student blogs on the internet has been quite a thrill, but this consideration is one I humbly accept. If you would...
Once again, with my fourth year of medical school completed, it is time for me to break out the inner nerd and share the pictograph of my numerical note-taking. The chart above representing my fourth year of school with obvious end points when interviews...
From the bowels of the LVH (Las Vegas Hotel) at the head of the ballroom, my classmates and I have gathered to be hooded doctors of osteopathic medicine. Its official, we are now doctors!!! Congratulations to all my TUN classmates and peers at other unive...
This post comes as another milestone arrives. I wasn't certain if I wanted this to be my last post as a medical student or the first as a physician. In the end, I think this entire day is in limbo between those two phases. Today is graduation day and like...
Rotations are finished. Residency is on the horizon. I am basking in the space between...vacation-land. Although there is plenty to do in preparation for the next steps, this time is just as precious as it sounds. Letting go of the time schedule, burdens...
While it seems that doctors are making buckets of money, lawyers have found a way to change this in concert with the political movers and shakers who are following suit. Many veteran physicians are encouraging young students to stay away from medicine for...
That bitter-sweet time came at three o'clock in the morning. I had finished my last shift in the emergency department, in medical school, and in Las Vegas. My last official function as a medical student had officially come to an end. (This might be a good...
