Saying goodbye to good friends

With residency rapidly approaching for many of my friends, the time has come for them to pack up their things and move to their new homes. It's a bittersweet affair because they're excited to finally be starting, but we'll all be separated by long distances and long …

So when exactly do I use this title?

Tim over at Prognosis Negative has brought up an interesting question that I've been wondering myself. Now that the both of us have received our titles of MD, when exactly are we supposed to use them? For banking? Credit cards? Checks? The last thing I want to do …

I've found a new home

With residencies and marriage taking us in different directions, my roommates and I are finding different places to live. Needles to say, apartment hunting the last few days has been anything but fun. Tim and Laura have already found a place to shack up, and even …

Well done little sis

Tomorrow my little sister Christina graduates from HS and it becomes painfully clear that I'm getting older.

The seven years that separated us by age were only part of what kept us in our own worlds. I'll reluctantly admit here in front of who knows how many readers …

The lie that is "wrinkle-free"

I've given it all the chances that I could. There's no other conclusion but that it's a big scam. A lie. I own two dress shirts, three pants, and two polos that are all supposed to be "wrinkle-free." I've followed the washing and drying directions to the letter and …

Don't these kids watch Sesame Street anymore?

So I'm at the park working on my tennis game. I've been in the racquetball cage hitting balls for around a half hour when I notice a couple kids standing behind the cage looking at me. I've got my headphones on so I can't hear what they're saying, but when I turn …

Ease of use?

I just spent the last 25 minutes on the phone trying to walk my dad through EJECTING A FLOPPY DISK. Yeah, you heard me right. Even though personal computers have been around for over twenty years and have become a part of our everyday lives, there are still people …

Boarded up

A piece of my childhood has been laid to rest for good. The home where I grew up has been seized by the drug enforcement agency and boarded up. My dad was in the city driving through our old neighborhood and saw it firsthand. It wasn't hard to believe considering how …

We want our money back now

I always find it strange when people tell me they couldn't go to college because they couldn't afford it. Today is especially one of those days because I'm in the process of collecting all of my student loan information to consolidate and get locked in to this great …

Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

It's been a while hasn't it? All apologies for the lack of content around here. With orientation activities in the hospital, moving into my new apartment, and other assorted life events I've been lax in my attention to the weblog. I wanted to come back with a great …

All settled in

Now that I'm 95% moved in and settled I figured it was high time that I post some photos. I was going to wait until I got all of the wall art hung up, but I'm still waiting on some shots to be mailed so I figured I better get something up here quick before I lose any …

Scattered PGY-1 notes

It's been a month since my graduation and I still haven't gotten used to the title. I don't ever use it when I sign things outside of the hospital and it feels strange to have people refer to me as a doctor. This past month has included a lot of orientation, a lot of …

Taking it one day at a time

I'm quickly finding that if I try to think ahead during my intern year I immediately feel overwhelmed and wonder how the hell I'm ever going to get through this. For survival...for sanity, I'm going to have to live in the moment and take things one day at a time. …

Where's Izzy? He needs to give this patient a hug

Another rotation down, many more to go. My days of being a surgeon are now behind me...not that I was ever really a surgeon in the first place. Most of my month was spent doing floor work and consults, with the occasional trip to the ER. I can't really complain …

All I do is work and sleep

The title says it all. The only thing I have the energy to do these days is sleep. As soon as I get out of the hospital I come home with ambitions to study or write or answer my voice mail messages. The moment I hit my apartment, however, the veil of sleep hits me …

Deliver your own babies from now on

Tomorrow brings with it my last day on the OB service, which will actually be a sad thing because of the great time I had working with my OB compatriots. It took me a while to gain the trust of the more senior residents, but once they saw I was somewhat competent and …

Blowing the dust off

People told me that my month of pediatrics was going to be a busy one...

It's been a while since I've written on here, and for that I apologize. For those of you still tuned in, here's a quick recap of what's been going on for the past couple of weeks:

I've been …

View from the not-so-cheap seats

So THIS is what a basketball game looks like from 8 rows up...

I had the great fortune this past weekend to check out the Cavs with some sweet seats (section 126) that my dad scored from a friend who had season tickets and wasn't going to the game. These tickets …

2005 in perspective

What a year...

Did I end up where I wanted to be? Yes and no. As usual I didn't make enough progress to be completely satisfied, but didn't fall back enough to be completely disappointed. "Lovely lukewarm anonymous mediocrity" was probably the theme for the year. …

So much to write

...that I'm bursting out the seams. I've got a lot of things I'm going to try getting out over the next few days. Surprisingly enough they're actually thoughts of real substance and exciting events in my world. I'm working in the ICU this month so I've got very …