Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Hello Goodbye


Conference was great. I don't mean 'great' as a I-don't-know-what-descriptive-word-to-use-at-the-moment, I mean G-reat!! I didn't realize how lecture-hungry I was. It was so good to reliterate known medicine, and to pick up some new stuff too. Oh and Kara. Kara is a hard-working, intelligent, and cheery fellow-Christian PA. We met initially during a leadership event and have hit it off ever since then. We are both new providers and it was so good to catch up, blabber about life, and bounce clinical ideas off each other. I will miss her so much!


Leadership activities were long, but productive. I have served in this position for two years, and while I am ready to move on, I am also sad to be leaving neat memories and friends. I have decided to take a year off before pursuing other leadership roles. Something about sanity and free time...


So the week's talley is looking good: conference, short week of work, seeing friends, and lots of sleep last night. However, one patient today at work made the week even better. This was the first time one of MY own patients got teary-eyed and thanked me and the Lord for the care provided. I got a hug at the end, and needless to say, I walked on air the rest of the day praising our GREAT Father - the only one who truely heals.


As for the picture, I just thought it was funny.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Me & Photos

So, I finally agreed to let a friend shoot some pictures of me since I typically don't keep very many on hand. This is just proof that I do not take good photos... 1/9 is semi-decent and in the rest I'm too busy worrying about how silly I look to bother trying to smile... I repeat myself below. But, I have to admit, it was fun making these collages :-)

On a different note, ER and Surgery examinations are over - and hopefully well. I just started Internal Medicine, and I'm expecting an extremely steep learning curve. I get my own patients starting tomorrow evening on night call. Should be a great educational experience! Most of the patients are extremely complex and already have lots of health problems and current medications. Better work on that phonetical spelling!


Sunday, February 17, 2008

Pharm Exam Tuesday

PLEASE NO MORE DRUG NAMES!!! I'm studying for my exam on Tuesday and am completely overwhelmed by all the classes side effects and contraindications of all these drugs. why can't things be simpler like the old days.... antibiotics? eat some mold. Heart problems? baby asprin (81mg).
Don't get me wrong. I'm extremely thankful for the medicines that exist today and espeically for those like my family who are alive due to them, I'm just frusterated that they are so difficult to memorize and retain. OK, enough complaining and procrastinating.