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  • The doctor-patient relationship

    After a long day's work, it's sometimes nice to go out to a bar with a buddy, share a beer, and commiserate over what life this is we call internship.I was supposed to meet my friend at BJ's Brewhouse, a vaguely familiar…

  • I'm supposed to be thankful for this?

    After a day and night of call, seeing everything from the drunk guy with a broken jaw to the state prisoner with a shattered hand, I came back to my apartment around 9 a.m. The plan was to change, wash up, and go my folk…

  • Wine and dine

    I was invited by the plastic surgery fellows to come out to pharmaceutical-sponsored dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. This is sketchy, I thought to myself. Just a few weeks ago my institution banned all pharmaceutical-…

  • The strings section

    I nearly fell asleep standing at the operating table. I had been in the hospital for over 30 hours, and here I was, standing on the foot-end of the table, watching my attending and chief on a reduction mammaplasty. I cou…

  • My HIN

    On one of the commentaries for a Scrubs DVD, it was said that Zach Braff recruited Amy Smart to guess star in the episode "My TCW" for no other good reason than she was hot and the script called for J.D. to make out with…

  • ER clerk

    There's this girl I see working the pediatric emergency room from time to time. She's a tall, pretty brunette who wears a tad too much makeup and works at the main computer in the central nurses' station. I think her nam…

  • Hand

    My first week on plastics was -- how do I say this? -- easy. It was quiet, unnervingly relaxing. There's not a lot of floor-scut to be done, and our patient census never went past 10. With Thanksgiving approaching, many …

  • Home base

    Today's my third day of my plastic surgery rotation. It's been a bit surreal -- with only seven patients on our census (of which only two patients are we the primary team), I find that I'm not constantly checking labs or…

  • Bluegrass state

    In what turned out to be a series of lucky (Providential?) breaks, I had the opportunity to go the Global Missions Health Conference in Louisville for what is my fourth straight year of attendance. I had little hope as a…

  • The singular best day on call

    Sunday I was on call again. We finished our morning team rounds at 9:30 a.m., after which point there was nothing to do.Nothing.I sat in the call room with the R3 and the MS4 and we watched nearly 12 hours of football an…

  • Trap

    In an effort to enjoy the remaining few days of nice autumn weather (because, as I've found out, it does indeed rain here in beautiful NorCal), I went trap shooting yesterday.Trap shooting is awfully similiar to the old …

  • The singular best night on call

    ENT call for me is a bit of a joke. I'm supposed to be on-call six times during my four-week stint with the ENT department, but I'm never really on call by myself. I'm always on-call with a true ENT resident (either a PG…

  • Chills

    I never really thought that it could all that cold here in the northern San Juaquin valley. After all, I'm Pennsylvania-trained. Central PA isn't Buffalo, per se, but it gets its fair share of cold, wind, and snow. No Ca…

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