Ennui?

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With graduation comes much rejoicing. Yay.

Role playing

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When is a medic not a medic? When he’s moved on….

Got a job

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I’ll spend the next 3 years of my life in lovely Pittsburgh, PA, at Allegheny General Hospital.

Drum roll please

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Today is Match Day, the annual holiday of medical students (and immigrating doctors) all across America, when we find out where we are to spend the next phase of our training–in my case, 3 years of Emergency Medicine.  Also, it’s only 78 more days until graduation…not that I’m counting. Bonus link:  a review of an appropriately-titled book, [...]

I pledge myself to…deliciousness

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I hereby pledge my undying love to medicine’s second most famous oath.

Pimpin’ ain’t easy either

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Overheard among medical students talking about their 4th-year rotations: Student 1:  You’re doing ER?  Do you really like working hard or what? Student 2:  I didn’t think it was going to be hard….

Frustration

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It’s like buying a Toyota and finding out it’s a clunker….

This week in God

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It doesn’t take a pastor to pray with a patient, although the pastor is probably more comfortable doing so than anyone else in the hospital.

The almighty dollar

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I know that times are tough, and state money is hard to come by, but I still believe there are probably certain things a medical school trying to raise a buck should be above.

Interesting conflict

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Conflicts of interest abound in both medicine and medical school–but it’s not always the doctors who are conflicted.