Thursday, March 20, 2008
Today's Big News
I have to admit that this posting finds me in a somewhat inebriated state, so forgive me if it is garbled, filled with spelling errors and/or makes no sense, but I have been out celebrating all day with my classmates. As predicted, it's been an emotional day for all of us, along with a lot of hugging and drinking. But, to keep you in suspense no longer...I will be staying in Chicago and at Rush. I'm off to take a quick nap before the celebration continues this evening and into the weekend. Send me a text or gimme a call if you wanna join the celebration fun. Hugs, everyone. :)
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Last Hoorah
Today we had our 'exit interview', a mandatory financial aid session for all of us who have taken out student loans to pay for our medical education (which is most of us). It is frightening how much money I owe. Looks like I'll be paying an arm and a leg, monthly, for the next 30 years. Some people invest in the stock market. Other folks invest in the housing market (although we've seen how that's turned out recently). So, pehaps investing in my rapidly deteriorating brain wasn't the worst possible idea. However, I'm not fully convinced it was the best idea either as any hopes of upgrading to the deluxe Ramen noodles version, were shattered to pieces this afternoon. Guess I'll be staying a PBR girl for a bit longer. However, I don't mind. There are worse things in life (Budweiser, Miller, etc.) and PBR has really grown on me, kinda like fungus.
Ah, fungus. That reminds me of that 'fun' fungal infection we learned about in our second year of medical school, Malazzesia Furfur. We really enjoyed tossing that name around for a while. Some of us even contemplated naming our next pet Malazzesia or Furfur. After we received our pagers at the beginning of our third year, we would text each other bogus consults with fancy medical terms we had learned to see who could come up with the funniest or most clever one, e.g.:
"Medicine team requesting surgical consult on a 43 year old male Pt with a midline malazzesia furfur fracture of the left ovary. We suspect that the Pt may have suffered spasmus nutans of the left gastrocnemius and as such may require an emergency anastomosis of the left dorsalis pedis and corpus spongiosum. Please advise promptly as Pt is experiencing paroxysmal bruxisms during micturition."
As you can surmise, I'm sure, it's basically just a bunch of random medical terms strung together into a garbled and meaningless word salad meant to sound impressive and be simultaneously entertaining.
It was great to see everyone today to catch up and reminisce. Tomorrow is bound to be an emotional day as we've made some great friendships after four years of medical school togetherness and now everyone's about to get flung off in various directions all across the country. I wish my classmates the best of luck in tomorrow's big moment of revelation. May you all get your first choice! Cheers, everyone! I'm off to a pre-match party to drink...what else...PBR of course!
Ah, fungus. That reminds me of that 'fun' fungal infection we learned about in our second year of medical school, Malazzesia Furfur. We really enjoyed tossing that name around for a while. Some of us even contemplated naming our next pet Malazzesia or Furfur. After we received our pagers at the beginning of our third year, we would text each other bogus consults with fancy medical terms we had learned to see who could come up with the funniest or most clever one, e.g.:
"Medicine team requesting surgical consult on a 43 year old male Pt with a midline malazzesia furfur fracture of the left ovary. We suspect that the Pt may have suffered spasmus nutans of the left gastrocnemius and as such may require an emergency anastomosis of the left dorsalis pedis and corpus spongiosum. Please advise promptly as Pt is experiencing paroxysmal bruxisms during micturition."
As you can surmise, I'm sure, it's basically just a bunch of random medical terms strung together into a garbled and meaningless word salad meant to sound impressive and be simultaneously entertaining.
It was great to see everyone today to catch up and reminisce. Tomorrow is bound to be an emotional day as we've made some great friendships after four years of medical school togetherness and now everyone's about to get flung off in various directions all across the country. I wish my classmates the best of luck in tomorrow's big moment of revelation. May you all get your first choice! Cheers, everyone! I'm off to a pre-match party to drink...what else...PBR of course!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." -Nido Qubein
Writing the first posting is akin to facing a blank canvas, paint brush in hand...simultaneously thrilling, adventurous, intimidating, and with endless creative possibilities. Yet, the moment you put down the first word or place the first brush stroke, you have already limited yourself. Sure, you can alter it and make it anything you envision it to be, but it will never again resume its tabula rasa state.
As I am fortunate enough to currently find myself in a position to begin a new chapter in my life and hence have a blank slate before me, I thought a blog to share with friends and loved ones would be a suitable forum to document this new beginning.
Thursday March 20, 2008 at 11 a.m. Central Time, less than two days from the present, is Match Day, the culmination of four years' of medical school. This is the day and time when we learn where we will begin our on-the-job training as physicians. Life as we know it at this point is about to change in a very big way. Not only will we be expected to have the knowledge and confidence of physicians, but the friends and support network we've relied upon over the past four years will be different as we transition into our new roles and our respective specialties, programs, and locales.
As I am fortunate enough to currently find myself in a position to begin a new chapter in my life and hence have a blank slate before me, I thought a blog to share with friends and loved ones would be a suitable forum to document this new beginning.
Thursday March 20, 2008 at 11 a.m. Central Time, less than two days from the present, is Match Day, the culmination of four years' of medical school. This is the day and time when we learn where we will begin our on-the-job training as physicians. Life as we know it at this point is about to change in a very big way. Not only will we be expected to have the knowledge and confidence of physicians, but the friends and support network we've relied upon over the past four years will be different as we transition into our new roles and our respective specialties, programs, and locales.
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