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Name: AgentLola
Gender: Female
Interests: living, yo
Expertise: The most dangerous thing in the world is to think you understand something.
—Zen saying
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
2/15/2003
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| 1. This is my last post here, I think. A non-binding decision (I love non-binding decisions), but for now: taking a break from xanga.
I’ve received a couple of really nice e-mails/phone calls recently and I decided I like personal contact best of all. Let’s be in touch, me and you, okay? I’m completely serious. It’s not like facebook doesn’t exist ;)
2. But, I can’t not write something. I get too wound up without keyboard dissipation. So find me here: www.aquacubed.blogspot.com
3. New blog for a new era. I’ll try to be a grown up. I want to post regularly. On three topics I think, so rather than me me me: art (recipes, songs, poems, books, movies), conversation transcripts (because people are amazing), and medicine/science/healthcare (because I’m trying so hard to embrace my new career). Maybe it will all morph back into whatever this was anyway.
4. We all hear horror stories about intern year. If I experience them, I’ll share it with you personally, okay? And I hope you’ll share your stories with me too.
Hasta la pasta!
[for now;)]
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| 1. today on the way home from work, i craved my jeans/t-shirt more than i've ever craved anything edible. more than donuts or or wheat thins or orange soda, even.
2. a little girl today to me, picking up my hand and examining my fingernails: "Your nails are so pretty." (I glowed inside as I have discovered a new nail-care system that doesn't falter with handwashing every five minutes). "but," she continued, "why are your fingers so cold?"
i've been cold for two weeks now. on lunch breaks, i run to my car and sit in the Heat absorbed through the windshield from a morning under the arizona sun. but my hands? always cold. it's mostly a curse.
3. match day is next week! this means, friends, we find out where residency will take us. i'm daydreaming about the most random aspects of the programs i applied to. the nice ping pong table at one. the mountainy view from a conference room in another. the cookies at another. the awkward book club advertisement at another.
4. also? one more thing? i listen to the news on npr during most of my commutes. and every time i hear the words "president obama" i get little chills and think, oh so this is what people mean when they say, "i have to pinch myself to prove i'm not dreaming." these are the good kind of chills, and today, hearing scientists discuss stem cell research and referring to president obama's "wise words," i was so happy to pinch and pinch and pinch . . . and then still see myself very awake and very alive.
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| This is from a dear friend with whom I've logged many swimming and polo hours back in the day. For her, today 5 is the theme instead of 4:
The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me!
My choice. For you.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year, most likely this spring.
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.
[Edit by me: no need to repost if you don't have a blog or don't want to. Just let me make you something.]
The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!
[I think you should make sure I have your mailing address, though :) ]
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| (new clinic, specialty clinic with a very serious doctor who is also rather adorable in his seriousness):
quotes from today's patients:
1. "well, i need to arrange a ride for that next appointment. my husband used to drive me everywhere, but he just done got old."
2. "i hope it's okay i came today in my nightclothes, but my daughter got arrested last night for clocking a police officer."
3. patient (older guy, stubborn): my medications don't work.
doc: your insulin? it works! you must actually take it though. this is getting serious; perhaps it is best if we put you in the hospital now. how about that? we admit you to the hospital, they'll give you insulin through an IV in your arm. then you'll see how it works. you need this.
patient: ok. fine. how about we do it in july?
thought/lesson:
4. people need each other, don't they? the tottering and wobbling of each day . . . sometimes it helps to have someone to totter with, i suppose.
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| Things I explained today:
1. How acid reflux causes cough
2. How stuffy nose causes cough
3. That those tonsils really aren't huge, really, she's aight. No, really.
4. How some coughs really are just a virus (I imagine there are great jokes about something being just a virus).
Associated thoughts:
1. I don't mind this kind of primary outpatient care at all. When people are receptive, it's great. Otherwise (more common in other clinics, unfortunately), it is mind-numbing and tedious and useless-feeling.
(Also, I had 2nd year students with me today. I admired their enthusiasm).
2. Diagnoses come in groupings. Everyone thinks so, but I haven't seen it for a while. Today, it was all coughs and arthritis.
3. Complimented: The teenage daughter of a patient told me my Spanish was good. "I mean, you definitely have an accent, but yeah, your Spanish is good." Can I tell you what a relief this is??? Oh, accents.
4. Still, despite enjoying the current autonomy and the work itself, I'm ready to be done with school. And not super looking forward to residency. Yet. maybe when I know where (March!), it will be easier to get pumped. Hmmm.
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