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Comment on Maybe… by JaCindZa NayVa

JaCindZa NayVa — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:52:32 +0000

Really great work to read your article here. ,I would like to join your blog anyway.to read your article here. Dr. Carl Balog

Comment on About by Imran Khan

Imran Khan — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:53:42 +0000

Do you have an e-mail or Twitter account where we can send you questions? I love you blog, keep up the good work!

Comment on Anatomy Lab by Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:31:23 +0000

I’m writing as the wife of a young physician donor and as someone who has signed the paperwork to be an anatomical donor to my late husband’s medical school as well. For my husband it was comforting to know that medical students like he had been would be the first to actually see and examine the tumor that took his life, and be able to contrast its pathology with what a pancreas should look like. As his wife I derived enormous comfort from actually meeting the medical students who worked with my husband’s body and knowing not just how seriously they treated this endeavor and how much they learned from it as medical students, but how they treated my husband as a human being and their first patient–not just a body.

Comment on Maybe… by Medical Resident

Medical Resident — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:31:01 +0000

The best advice I have for you is to relax and enjoy this time before you begin. Residency is a journey that nothing can really prepare you for – it is more of an experience that will happen to you, and your transition from student to physician will happen in time. The flood of experiences you will encounter during your intern year will help to facilitate this transition. Best of luck!

Comment on On winter solstice, or becoming real by The Pain of Monday « A Medical Resident's Journey

The Pain of Monday « A Medical Resident's Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:33:12 +0000

[...] seven more months to go in the coming year, and I will be an attending physician. My blog post on On winter solstice, or becoming real is ever present in my mind and my heart. This is really it. I am savoring every moment left I have [...]

Comment on Maybe… by gazelle

gazelle — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:01:09 +0000

Hi ,
I stumbled upon your blog and could ot stop reading. I am going to begin my psychiatry residency in about 1.5 months, God-willing…I am feeling overwhelming stress knowing that I will be looked upon as a physician now…I won’t have a short white coat symbolizing that I am “only a student”. If you have any advice for what I should be doing to prepare, reading, anything…I would appreciate it.

Comment on Needlestick Injuries by Glenn Ekblad

Glenn Ekblad — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:05:42 +0000

OUTSTANDING ARTICLE. I WILL USE THIS ARTICLE IN MY WEEKLY EMERGENCY MEDICINE EDUCATIONAL/READ GROUP. GLENN EKBLAD, DO, FACEP, FAAEM

Comment on To Scan or Not to Scan: The Use of CT by Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:17:30 +0000

Very well explained post. I absolutely agree that we may need to help decrease the number of unnecessary CT scans since it’s kinda expensive. I hope there’ll be a lot of training in order to develop the other physicians skilled in ultrasound use. So by that, it can somehow help patients to save money and can be easily diagnosed through that. Thank you and all the best for you.

Comment on This Too Shall Pass by Penelope Rock

Penelope Rock — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:46:23 +0000

“I see the ghosts of patients in each bed – how many I have cared for. I wonder if they still remember me.”

Oh, the same thoughts that I have every time I look on hospital beds, new patients and old colleagues. Time is so subtle and change is always permanent. The only thing to do is to live every moment as though it is our last.

Comment on The Downsides of the Emergency Room by Brian Rike, DO

Brian Rike, DO — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:34:41 +0000

nice article interesting read I like the bring a book, to me when I walk in a room and the patient is listening to their ipod or reading a book I instantly think – really can you have a medical emergency while reading and listening to music?? Generally, the real emergencies people can’t talk or are in so much distress reading a book and listening to music is the last thing on their mind. Tip for smart money – stick to picking investments that only work out 50% of the time.