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  • The unflattering profile of scrubs

    I love scrubs. I wear them during the day, during the night, on call, in the OR, in bed, lancing boils, stapling gut, cooking spaghetti, all the time and everywhere. I even went to today's Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day…

  • I heart Charlie Brown

  • EMR

    Four days ago, my hospital went to an electronic medical record. The death of paper charts had arrived -- everything is now on the computer.Now in theory, I think EMR is the wave of the future. No more figuring out docto…

  • Return of the med studs

    Fresh third-year medical students started on service today.Fresh.I remember what it was like on my first day of third year. I was clueless. Excited, nervous, eager to please, glad to be done with my obligatory two years …

  • A weekend of recovery

    How do I deal with a bad, bad week? Easy, the same way I deal with anything else tough in life: I hide under my bedcovers.After a glorious fourteen hours in bed (by myself, thanks for asking), I woke up remarkably early …

  • Criticism

    I don't take criticism very well. I really don't know anyone who does, I suppose. I find it demoralizing and depressing.My month on the surgical GI service would otherwise be a pretty good month -- no in-house call, two …

  • My cell phone bill

    I didn't get a cell phone until I started internship. I started out with a pretty basic package from T-Mobile, something like 600 minutes a month with free nights and weekend. Interestingly, however, I found that I was o…

  • Recognition

    I walked into the OR the other day and the scrub nurse looked up."Hi, anDrew!"I stopped dead in my tracks. Who called my name out? Who knows who I am? How do they know who I am?I looked at the scrub nurse. Her face was f…

  • I'll make him an offer he can't refuse

    Today, 2500 miles away from my little apartment, in some New England birthing suite, a little baby boy is being born. And for the first time, I am becoming a godfather.I'm not entirely sure what a godfather does. I don't…

  • Stimulus package

    Last weekend I visited some friends in Boston. It was a good time, but I didn't get back to my apartment till 11:30 p.m., and I had to be at the hospital for rounds at 5:15 a.m. Ugh.Five a.m. found me sitting in my car. …

  • Out of the frying pan...

    I haven't been very good about blogging this past week, mostly because...well...I've been busy. It's a lame excuse, used much too often by residents, but for me, it's true. For real.I thought moving from the trauma ICU …

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