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Anesthesiology adventures
Rotation: anesthesiology. Duration: one month.A typical morning would start with me helping the anesthesiologist bring a patient into the operating room. I would begin placing all the monitors on the patient (always havi… -
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The prophecy
Standing on a Manhattan piling, overlooking the East River.(It's kind of like remembering the punchline but forgetting the joke: I've forgotten why the subject came up, but it did.)One of the medical assistants at the su… -
Tasting wine
Though I live fairly close to the renown Sonoma and Napa valleys, I haven't had an excuse to go wine tasting until a friend from med school flew in to visit this week.Wine tasting is a curious experience. It involves a l… -
The blind shall see
Being a typical nerdy bookworm of a boy, I got my first prescription glasses when I was 10 years old. My eyes worsened slightly every year. Soon I was wearing -6.0 diopter contacts (which, essentially, means I couldn't c… -
Insect update
Ah hah! So that's what I should be doing in my apartment -- smoking! Perhaps then the cockroaches will go away!Actually, the cockroach problem hasn't been too bad as of late. Apparently my upstairs neighbor was evicted.… -
Wistful
Autumn has arrived. I think I liked summer more. -
And now, for something entirely different
This month finds me rotating through the department of anesthesiology. Ah yes, our mysterious colleagues...so close, yet so far. They're just a hop, skip, and a jump over the paper blue blood-brain-barrier. But once you … -
Notes from a wedding
This past weekend found me spending twenty hours on plane and car to spend thirty hours on the coast of North Carolina. I was attending a wedding of one of my medical school roommates. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding …
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