best preceptor ever
“Brain constipation?”
“No, we’re just waiting for the interpreter who may or may not still be here and until then I get to sit here freaking out about this consult.”
“Want a Xanax?”
“Just half.”
“Split it with you.”
10/9/2007
10/5/2007
overheard
“Oh gawd, you’re still working during rotations?”
“Just Saturdays. It’s nice to have one day a week where I can still feel competent.”
10/2/2007
things I did not know from my second day of rotations
- dilitation
- refeeding syndrome
- MDS
- QIR
- MAPS facility
- reconnoition
- LCTA
- OHL
- hip FROM
- Colles’ fracture
- pleocytosis
- hypoglycorrhachia
- recrudescence of encephalitis
- cannulation with arterial wave form
- astrocytosis
- how real and early can be the failure of antiretroviral therapy.
I have looked most of them up now.
10/1/2007
now I am become death, destroyer of worlds
..the message of World War II movies is that the greatest horror of war is the bad things that can happen to you in war. The message of Vietnam movies is that the greatest horror of war is the bad things war requires you to do to other people…we’ve shaken off the underlying recognition that in some ways, death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to us—that becoming the evil you are supposed to be resisting is worse.